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...Governorship of New York is commonly considered second in importance only to the Presidency of the U. S. New York is the most populous State (12,588,000), most wealthy ($40,708,000,000), most costly to run ($310,777,000). It holds the economic heart of the nation. Its citizens pay one-third of the total Federal income tax. Three of its 44 Governors?Van Buren, Cleveland, Roosevelt?have proceeded to the nation's No. 1 job. Four others?Seymour, Tilden, Hughes, Smith?ran for the Presidency...
...Ogden Livingston Mills spent two years in the State Senate, six in the House of Representatives, but Smith trounced him too, in 1926. Albert Ottinger was a State Senator before President Harding put him in his sub-Cabinet as Assistant Attorney General. He was beaten in 1928 for the Governorship by Franklin Roosevelt...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his fifth cousin, followed the same routine to the Governorship...
...Foundation as the beneficiary. . . . His lameness which is steadily getting better has no more effect on his general condition than if he had a glass eye or was prematurely bald. ... If he were a weakling in any respect he could not have gone through two gruelling campaigns for the Governorship of New York. . . Governor Roosevelt might be handicapped in a footrace but in no other way need he fear comparison with his adversary...
...other 16 states only two were of any importance; a southern, Catholic, reactionary state, still talking Secession, representing Bavaria, and a central, industrial state representing Saxony. Then picture President Hoover, one week before a national election, suddenly throwing the entire New York State Government out of office, assuming the Governorship himself, declaring martial law and doubling the size of the U. S. Army by attaching to it the New York State Police. Precisely parallel was what happened in Germany last week...