POLITICAL NOTES: The People's Voice

"The People's Voice"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, candidate for Vice President in 1920, is rapidly improving in health. His lameness is disappearing. In Florida he swam much and fished.

On his way back to Long Island he stopped over in Washington and left an idea in the political pool. Congress, he suggests, should enact a law providing for national referendum on big issues. The law would direct the Secretary of State to request all Governors to put on the official ballots in national elections any question upon which Congress may wish to obtain...

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