National Affairs: Consistent Influence

It is Franklin Roosevelt's firm intention, and likely destiny, to go down in history as a President who affected U. S. life more profoundly than any man since Lincoln.

Eight years are the probable span allotted him for this work. Last week he expressed, through Secretary Hull, his condolences upon the death of a man who had influenced U. S. life for 17 years, a man to whom Franklin Roosevelt had lately seemed to be turning as an ally in his stand for democracy against dictatorship (TIME, Jan. 9). Congress, too, paid its respects to that man as a temporal sovereign. For...

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