DEMOCRATS: Cruise of the Myth

After he was elected President four years ago, Herbert Hoover got on a battleship and cruised around South America to rest and to allay hostile economic feelings engendered by the policies of Calvin Coolidge. After he was nominated for President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt got on a 40-ft. yawl and cruised around New England co rest and to allay hostile political feelings engendered by his defeat of Alfred Emanuel Smith at the Chicago convention.

With him as crew aboard the Myth II, Nominee Roosevelt took three of his four toothy sons, James. Franklin Jr....

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