John Ritchie Boyd manages investments, has an office in Wall Street, spends his summers in Buckhill Falls, Pa. As his friends well know, he is a man of probity, propriety and sound ideas. Year ago he had an idea which was not so much sound as brilliant. He thereupon sat down and wrote a letter to President Roosevelt.
"The suggestion I am about to make," wrote Mr. Boyd, "may at first glance seem inexpedient, but I believe it has real merit and I urge you to give it very serious consideration. The suggestion is that the Democratic National Ticket in 1940...
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