"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Reluctant to refuse when it was offered to him by President Roosevelt at the White House, Idaho's Democratic Governor Charles Ben Ross smoked his first cigaret in 20 years.
So eager was impetuous Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. to meet the S. S. Carinthia, inbound from Nassau, that he could not wait until the ship docked at Manhattan. Assisted by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, he arranged for a Coast Guard automobile to carry him to Floyd Bennett Field. There, swaddled in a heavy flying suit...
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