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Franklin Roosevelt donned his blue-black Navy cape and his famed campaign hat-the gear in which he campaigned successfully into Terms I, II & III. Out of the White House garage came the huge black Packard touring car with the bulletproof windows. To the Secret Service went the order to mobilize all resources. Franklin Roosevelt had decided to campaign in the usual partisan sense...
...generally the Roosevelt luck with weather had been fabulous. But it had never rained more incessantly and gloomily than now. It had begun long before 9:50 a.m., when Franklin Roosevelt climbed out of his private railroad car at the Brooklyn Army base. He eased himself into the black Packard, ordered the canvas top drawn back, and threw the Navy cape about his broad shoulders...
...Gear for Autos. The gloom was slightly relieved by George Christopher, president of Packard. He predicted little reconversion unemployment for Detroit because 1) plants will be busy on Japanese war work, 2) workers will be needed for the reconversion job itself...
...York Times's Herbert L. Matthews, whose stories on the Ciano execution (TIME, July 10) and the Matteotti murder (TIME, Aug. 7) stirred international interest. Other political writers who have begun to clear the picture of Europe under Fascism are the U.P.'s Reynolds and Eleanor Packard, I.N.S.'s Mike Chinigo, A.P.'s Edward Kennedy, New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart. Most had been in Italy before the war, all have old contacts there from which new material has begun to flow...
Military Inspection. The President then undertook a systematic, full-schedule inspection of Hawaii. In two days, touring about in an open Packard, his seersucker suit and Panama hat conspicuous among the gold braid of generals and admirals, he visited Marine and Naval air stations, Hickam Field, a jungle training center, ammunition dumps, supply bases, hospitals and Pearl Harbor itself...