So busy last week was Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Democratic Nominee (see p. 13) that he performed only two conspicuous official acts as President:
¶He donned a topper and traveled by ferry to little Bedloe Island in New York Harbor. There he joined President Albert Lebrun of France, who spoke by radio from Paris, in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty (see p. 27). Said the President, repeating Grover Cleveland's pledge in dedicating the statue: "We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home, nor shall her...
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