One day last week Franklin Roosevelt called on the U. S. people to pay tribute on Oct. 9 to the memory of Leif Ericson, who "almost a thousand years ago opened a path to the New World."
This was not exactly hot news. But it was one minor chord, a treble note, in the vastly planned, superbly played concert that Virtuoso Roosevelt was playing on the national organ—the U. S. Press.
Wrote the President: "Every stout heart that has advanced the frontiers of human knowledge by exploration has been accompanied . ....
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