THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jun. 18, 1934

In addition to signing the Stock Exchange Regulation bill and handing one of the pens to Ferdinand Pecora, signing a new Corporate Bankruptcy bill, asking Congress for $525,000,000 for drought relief, signing two Federal crime bills, asking Congress to give Haiti left-over equipment of the U. S. Marines there and planning the wind-up of the session with House & Senate leaders, President Roosevelt went cruising down the Potomac last week on the Sequoia. With him went two baskets crammed full of official papers—each paper a problem. The President was tired, mentally and...

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