THE PRESIDENCY: Electoral Equinox

One morning last week newshawks trooped into President Roosevelt's office to see, across one side of the room, a sight they had not seen in months. On easels near the back, newly mounted, freshly painted, stood a 6-ft. sailfish, last observed by the Press when the President landed it off Cocos Island in October. Nearer the front of the room doors were wide open to Franklin Roosevelt's fourth spring in the White House.

Better token of an election-year spring than the balmy air filling the White House office, was the way in which...

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