Press: Philadelphia Feud

One afternoon last week, readers of the Philadelphia Record, who are constantly being told to love, honor & obey the New Deal, were startled to find in their paper a full-page advertisement entitled THE RAKE'S PROGRESS, or The United States is wasting its substance in riotous extravagance. Excerpt: "WOODROW WILSON and Franklin D. Roosevelt, however admirable their qualities, nevertheless divide the distinction of standing forth as the Coal-Oil Johnnies of American politics. . . . Before the times of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States had practically NO...

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