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¶ From conferences whose aim was to find a way out of the muddle left by the abolition of AAA, President Roosevelt took time out for two gracious acts. He dropped in unexpectedly to chat with the directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs who were having tea with his wife at the White House. He sent to Congress a special message urging the appropriation of $500 as compensation for personal injuries suffered year ago by "Mrs. M. N. Shwamberg, nationality indeterminable ... as a result of a collision between a public jinrikisha in which she was riding and a U. S. Marine Corps Ambulance on Seymour Road, Shanghai, China."
¶Final results of the Literary Digest poll (62.6% against the policies of the New Deal) left Franklin Roosevelt smiling. Of one thing he was confident: that he would be reelected.