Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 16, a stock Franklin Sedan driven by Cannon Ball Baker, completed the fastest round-trip ever made by automobile or train between Los Angeles and New York, covering 6,692 miles in 6¼ days. ... On the trip east the time was 74 hours flat. ... On the return trip, the total time was 83 hours and 23 minutes...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the man who now seemed to become, automatically, the national Democracy's most potent figure (see p. 12), said: "Get a rest...
...Staten Island, N. Y., one George Sheridan, of the Fire Prevention Bureau, mortgaged his home, bet $15,000 at 5 to 4 that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be elected Governor, banked...
...dissolve its national personnel, redheaded Governor Moody was not without constructive ideas about his party's future. In the same breath with which he condemned Mr. Raskob, he hailed the man to whom Governor Smith's, political potency had obviously passed. Said he: "The tremendous vote given Franklin D. Roosevelt by the citizens of the Empire State [for Governor] attest the esteem in which he is held by the people of the State and mark for him a continuous and growing place among the leaders of thought in national affairs...