Hcmnegcm's Enthusiasm

The White House announced Franklin Roosevelt's next speaking date: Oct. 21, before the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Association, at a dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The announcement quieted a furious buzz of rumors.

For a fortnight the White House had refused to verify any definite Roosevelt speaking engagements beyond the Oct. 5 talk to party workers (see below). But the speech to the Teamsters fired Term IV Chairman Bob Hannegan with almost uncontrollable enthusiasm for the President's oratorical wizardry. Moving in Manhattan's café society, zealous Bob Hannegan began to have dazzling ideas about...

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