National Affairs: Platform of 1934

The platform committee of the Demo-cratic party is composed of one member who sits regularly at the President's desk at the White House. Not for months has that committee addressed "my friends" by radio. Last week he penned a piece of political literature that will be quoted and requoted throughout the land for the next five months.

Month ago the Press reported that President Roosevelt intended to send Congress a message on "social legislation." At a subsequent conference with newshawks he wondered aloud how such erroneous information could have got abroad, for he had...

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