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...Jackson Day Dinner in Washington. The meal cost 2,000 diners $50 per plate- $5 for food and $45 for the Party's campaign chest. When he had eaten tomato stuffed with lobster, diamondbacked terrapin soup, breast of capon, hearts of palm salad and other things, the 32nd President of the U. S. arose and broadcast as follows on the 7th President...
...Before his return to Washington Franklin Roosevelt, Shriner and 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, had promised to attend the Masonic ceremony at which two of his sons, James and Franklin Jr., were to become 3rd degree Masons. Accompanied by his mother, the President entered a car at Hyde Park and started for Manhattan under heavy escort. Instead of driving at the usual 50 m.p.h. clip, the motorcade never once exceeded 30 m.p.h. The 75-mile trip took nearly three hours. At the edge of New York City, 350 police took over from State Troopers. Behind 15 motorcycle policemen...
When he was a boy at Hyde Park and sailed his toy boats on the placid Hudson, Franklin Roosevelt hungered for romance on the high seas. Never having outgrown his juvenile appetite for maritime adventure, the 32nd U. S. President's eyes sparkled appreciatively last week when he stepped ashore on a Treasure Island as fabulous as Robert Louis Stevenson's. Like a big green peppermint gum drop ringed with a frost of spun sugar, the densely vegetated peaks of Cocos Island rose some 2,000 ft. over his head, while all around the island's steep...
...crowing reached the alert ears of Alfred Emanuel Smith on the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building. As chairman of the advisory committee of the Legion of Decency which is making cinema companies toe the mark (TIME, June 11, et seq.), Mr. Smith called for a copy of the law Mr. Burke considered so exemplary. It read: "A person who willfully and lewdly exposes his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place or in any other place where others are present, or procures another so to expose himself is guilty of a misdemeanor...
...said about the possibility of the Government's going into the field of private business. And it certainly never occurred to the Constitution-makers that the manufacture and sale of electric power in the seven States of the Tennessee Valley would be very dear to the heart of the 32nd President...