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While writing a doctoral thesis on "Psychological and Social Analysis of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Childhood," Nona Ferdon found something no one else seems to have noticed in a diary that Roosevelt kept during 1902 and 1903, when he was at Harvard. In four entries, there appears a string of numbers and odd symbols. Eventually, a newspaper story produced enough hints from amateur code breakers to show that the numbers stood for vowels (1A, 2-E, etc.), and the symbols were simply unfinished letters. The surprisingly tame translation: "Spent the evening on the lawn and Alice confided...
...Ferdon Neil is said to have has Tom "Moon" Mullen say, "I may always be right, but I'm never wrong Guess Tom knows what he's saying he must realize that he is encroaching on Max Richard's and "Mother" Renin territory by such a declaration...
...Oakley, E. C. Parish, J. G. Penrod. M. D. Perkins, Gardiner Pier, R. S. Playfair, J. J. Ponuchalek, Alfred Pope. J. C. Prescott. R. H. Rawson. R. G. Reed. Hamilton Richards. Lawrason Riggs. H. B. Robbins. Paul Rutledge. H. R. Sargent. Hubert Seheffy, H. E. Schroeder, R. G. Scott. Ferdon Shaw. A. M. Sherwood. A. R. Shrigley. R. W. Smith, L. N. Stevens, H. B. Stoddard...
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