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From the world at large messages of sympathy and relief flooded in upon President-elect Roosevelt. To a man, his country rose to applaud his cool courage in the face of Death. All minor political discords were hushed in the paean of popular rejoicing at his escape. The Miami episode added one more asset to the large store Franklin Roosevelt already has to take into the White House: he is a martyr President at the start of his term.
*TIME here uses advisedly a word offensive to Italians and other persons of Mediterranean origin. In the average U. S. vocabulary the word conveniently connotes foreigners of suspicious, possibly vicious character. (In distinction, "wop" seems to mean a more goodnatured individual.) Used without respect to nationality, let "dagoes" not unduly offend any national sensibilities.—ED. *The curious, eminently readable, 89-year-old Nassau Guardian, semiweekly (circulation 3,000), composed on old tombstones and jointly owned by Miss Mary Moseley and Knowlton Lyman ("Junior") Ames of Chicago, assistant to Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News. *In 1893 Carter Henry Harrison, another "World's Fair Mayor" of Chicago, was assassinated in his own doorway by a young jobseeker.