Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Roosevelt-Moody. Eager though he was to 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...
...almost as though Governor Moody, himself just re-elected by a whacking majority in the South, had said to Governor-elect Roosevelt in the North: "It's going to be either you or me in 1932, old boy, and I'm a good enough politician to see that it had better be you and me. We'll decide later which of us gets first place on the ticket...
Governor-elect Roosevelt wisely avoided public discussion of the future, specific and inevitable though it seemed. He asserted stoutly that the Smith candidacy had anything but weakened the party nationally-look at that popular vote! He might have gone on-but he didn't-to point out that the Smith power, appeal and tradition were continued in him by every token-the long friendship, the nominating speeches, the direct bestowal of New York's Governorship. He might have suggested, as others did, that in him the Smith power might be liberated from the stigima of Roman Catholicism, Tammany...
Governor-elect Roosevelt did not betray his consciousness of any of these things, not only because it would have been bumptious to do so but also because all was contingent upon two things-his health and his record as New York's Governor...