TRANSPORTATION: Franklin, Roosevelt & Astor

Month ago Senator Arthur Robinson, an Indiana Republican who can always be trusted to believe the worst about Democrats, suggested that the Senate's ocean-&-airmail investigating committee ought to look into the following: Had Vincent Astor, a director of International Mercantile Marine, and Kermit Roosevelt, an I. M. M. vice president, while aboard the Astor yacht Nourmahal off Florida with their friend Franklin D. Roosevelt, received from P. A. S. Franklin, president of I. M. M., private business messages to be conveyed to the President?

As chairman of the Senate inquiry Senator Black of...

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