THE PRESIDENCY: THE PRESIDENCY The Roosevelt Week

THE PRESIDENCY

The Roosevelt Week

Last Sunday evening President Roosevelt sat comfortably down before a microphone in his upstairs study at the White House, ground out a cigaret stub and proceeded to broadcast to the nation a neighborly 15-minute talk on banks & banking. On the morrow the country's sound banks were to start reopening. During the sensational week they had all been closed by his decree, the President had done some extraordinary things. Now in A. B. C. fashion he wanted to explain his actions to his countrymen and persuade them, by simple...

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