Better Homes in America: Plan Book for Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922

Marie Mattingly Meloney

Marie Mattingly Meloney, who used Mrs. William B. Meloney as her professional and social name, was "one of the leading woman journalists of the United States", a magazine editor and a socialite who in the 1920s organized a fund drive to buy radium for Marie Curie and began a movement for better housing. In the 1930s, nicknamed Missy, she was a friend and confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt.