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ROMANTIC RISE TO FAME OF US. PRESIDENT From Ancestral Home, Not Log Cabin

BRILLIANT CAREER

AT HARVARD

to, have "Blue-eyed Billie" Shee- han-named as United States Seria- tor in the place of Chauncey Depew.

Fought Tammany

For two months Roosevelt marshalled his forces against a

SURPRISE ENTRY INTO raging Tammany Tiger and in the

AMERICAN POLITICS

BITTER FIGHT WITH TAMMANNY TIGER IN SENATORIAL ELECTION

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end he won. Murphy withdrew the name of Sheehan. A compromise was reached on James A. O'Gor- man, friend of Woodrow Wilson.

Roosevelt came back in 1912 to win the Senate seat again for an-] other two years. This same year The carried on another fight against

Wilson at the Baltimore conven

tion after delegation looking for

IKE many of America's Presidents, Franklin Tammany Hall and Boss Murphy Delano Roosevelt was born a farm boy-when he openly espoused the pre- but unlike many, he came not from a log cabin.sidential aspirations of Woodrow His birthplace was the ancestral manor of histion. family high above the stately Hudson River. Roosevelt went through delega-| President Roosevelt still makes his home in support. In this fight he became that beautiful structure of colonial architecture fast friends with Josephus at Hyde Park, in Duchess County, New York. Daniels, newspaper editor, of

He weighed ten pounds when he was born on January 30, 1882, the son of James Roosevelt Secretary of the Navy. He in and Sara Delano Roosevelt. As a boy he romp-ant and decided on Roosevelt. ed the 1,000-acre estate of his parents, exploring Roosevelt, with his wife and every nook and cranny of that "well-ordered three children, Anna. James and farm.

He had his dogs and horses; His college chuma credit Roose- and was fond of both.

velt with lifting the Crimson out) "Our branch of the Roosevelt of the slough and transforming it tribe." he delights in telling his into a provocative paper that since; friends, "were, great judges of then has aroused considerable borsefesh. But we favoured trot-comment. Young Roosevelt is re- ters. My first mount was a pony ported to have said, concerning! that father gave me," he once told the paper:

newspaper correspondents. "But "When you want attention, start my joy at receiving the gift was something.” somewhat dampened when I learn-

From Harvard Roosevelt went!

ed that Oggie Milla, one of my to Columbia Law School, after- neighbours, had not cay a pony, ward taking the examination for (but an English groom to ride with admittance to the Ear and passing.

him."

(with high mRTİCS. The Oggie of his boyhood days Roosevelt's choice of a bridej Was zone other than Ogden Lwas another Roosevelt-from that Mills, later Secretary of the Trea-branch of the family which gave sury. Mills during the campaign)the famous T. R. to the nation. was regarded as Roosevelt's sever- She was Anna Eleanor, the Jest critic.

(daughter of Elliott Roosevelt, Roosevelt's education as a child/youngest brother to the late Pre- was obtained from tutors and at sident. They were married in the feet of his parents. In his New York City in March, 1905. reading he developed a fondness) And the bride's "Uncle Ted," came for the sea and its heroes that has from the White House in Wash- become one of the outstanding ington to give her away. characteristics of a busy life. At

Day Of BossÉKIN

and

Hyde Park every room in the Roosevelt from 1905 to 1910 de- aoude is filled wth pictures of vated his time to his law ships, stately elippers, old men-of-divided that time between New war, long since gone to their York City and Hyde Park. In the graveyard, prints of Civil Warlautumn of 1910 the, State of New Vessels in action and even an York was rocked by scandals in- ancient drawing of the famous įvolving, public men. Bossism had steamers that plied the Hudson become a burning issue. The few past his home in the halcyon days Democrats in Columbia, Putnam of racing on the river.

and Duchess Counties were hard

Finally, as

North Carolina.

Wilson won and Daniels became

turn looked around for an assist-

Elliott, then moved to Washington

1935

(Above)-Identical poser snap-

ped when President Roosevelt took office and again in 1935 show how the Chief, Exeentive stood the strain of the long battle. for recovery and the new, burdens added by the rejection of many New Deal measures by the Supreme Court. (Left) The President during his visit to Warm Springs, Georgia, on his vacation this year.

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that everyone thought he would. carry for the rest of his life and. with a set of strong braces, be faced the world with a renewed vigour.

Friends of the Roosevelt family declare that at no time has any member mentioned the physical disability of the Governor.

In 1924 when the country was rocked by the revelations of the Teapot Dome Oil scandal, Roose- velt was again found in the firing line-of the Democratic Party. Al Smith, his old friend, was being jurged to seek the nomination for the Presidency. Smith's sup- porters, looking for a campaign manager, turned to Roosevelt.

Nominated Smith

In the turbulent Democratic national convention 'of 1924 Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared as if by magic. Supported on the arm of James, his eldest son, he walked out on the platform and placed into nomination the name of Alfred E. Smith. The applause

their work well.

"Sailor" President-

¡pressed to find a candidate for There he astounded the country the Assembly and Frank was a Ecosevelt likes to be referred to State Senator for their district by declaring the navy to be in a first term Senator. jas a sailor.

One after another of the so-called state of hopeless inefficiency. He "My navy training," he often leading local figures refused the asked for more men and pleadedFrance in 1919 where he helped but the forces of strife had done Federal duties took Roosevelt to was thunderous and prolonged, remarks, "has been of inestimable comination.

that the "first line of defence" be adjudicate large navy contracts value to me.”

to its authorised and close the official business of deadlock was there. Smith on one the story goes, brought up

The inevitable At the age of 14, young Roose-Franklin Roosevelt was brought strength.

the navy with the allied Govern-side, William G. McAdoo of Cali-, velt was sent from his "fireside into the picture. He was remem- ¡classroom" to Groton School for bered as an

Roosevelt saw the war on the ments. alert and up and ocean first hand. He went across]

When he returned to America, Davis,

forbia on the other. Boys, a fashionable college pre-coming young lawyer, liked by all aboard a destroyer.

John W. compromise candidate paratory school in Groton, Mass, but whose nearest approach to "When the ship rolled me all into the fight for the League of thing. The country turned a deaf immediately plunged was selected after weeks of bat- He went, but not until he debated public service was as a member of but out of my

bunk 1 lit a Nations and for the national tic- the subject with his father, for the volunteer fire department of cigarette and tried to be compos-et on which, at the age of 38, he candidates and Calvin Coolidge ear to pleas of Democratic Franklin wanted to go to sea. his home town. He was persuad-led,” he said.

was the candidate for Vice was swept into office as the. President.

Republican President-

Suggested Smith

Roosevelt

He toured the country from one

and

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At Groton he was one of the ed to run. most popular boys, all his bio- He tells that he crossed the graphers agree. He played foot-Connecticut State line in his zeal- ball, baseball, hockey, and was onejous drive for votes and another and Wilson administration it was than 300 campaign speeches. But to Warm Springs in

In the closing days of the sec-end to the other, making more way, Roosevelt turned once more The political fight out of the for the rowing crew. Roosevelt time invaded the district of an- Roosevelt who, retaining a close the cry of. "Normalcy"

his search was at Groten five years, being other Senator. He was elected by watch on the political situation in "Article. I" was

for complete recovery. Interested graduated with honours.

too much for in the plight of other sufferers, he 1.100 votes. From Groton he went to Har

New York State, is said to have him. He went down to defeat founded with others the Warm Once in the Senate, Roosevelt suggested Alfred E. Smith for the with James M Cox in the Harding Springs Foundation, improved the vard. Before going to college, his led an insurgency that is still Government over the protests of landslide. summers usually were spent in talked about. He dared defy the other Democratic leaders. New Brunswick, where he sailed powerful Tammany Boss, Charles

Roosevelt had resigned from the treatment of persons of limited Spa and made it possible for the and learned of the mysteries of F. Murphy, who was endeavouring the time when Al was Speaker of presidential campaign. When that

This friendship dated back to navy to embark upon the vice financial means.

It was-Smith, the "Happy War- was over he returned to his law rior," practice with Basil O'Connor in into active politics. Al, the Demt20- who called Roosevelt back New York City. In the summer cratic nominee for the presidency of 1921 he went to his Maine in 1928, was casting about desper- cottage for the first rest he had ately for a strong candidate to known in several years. He was head the New York State ticket. tired and his arduous duties had Roosevelt had declined sapped him of much of his reserve nomination. strength.

the sea.

Trip To Germany

One summer, however, he went to Europe with an instructor. During a later visit to Albany by the sons of the former German Crown Prince, the Governor laugh- ed heartily as he recalled his trip to their country.

"I was arrested four times in one day," he said. "Once for speeding on my bicycle, another time for running over a gooer with the same wheel, a third time for carrying the "bike" into the (waiting room of a railroad station and last, for riding into a restrict ed military zone. I was fined every time but the fourth, he ex- plained. "The colonel called me in, lectured me and sent me off rejoicing with a glass of beer.”

At Harvard, Roosevelt finished the normal course in three years instead of four and found time Ito engage in numerous athletic activities and in writing for and editing the Harvard Crimso

shington diame

velt are here shown attending the erica's Chief Executive's

Infantile Faralysis

the

Drafted For Job The Democrats met that year at In Maine Roosevelt went sailing Rochester, N. Y., for their State and indulged frequently in his convention. After 24 hours of favourite outdoor sport, swim-fruitless effort, Smith finally got ming. He took cold. Two days Roosevelt on the long-distance later he was near death. He was telephone and virtually drafted. suffering from Infantile paralysis. him for the governorship.

He was but 39. He determined In the race that all Smith "to best this thing." Recovering lost New York Siste, but Boose- slowly, he exercised the affected velt won over Albert Ottinger, his legs daily and then finally he was Republican opponent, by 25,000 told of the beneficial properties of votes.

the pool at a run-down summer Roosevelt assumed the governor. resort at Warm Springs, Georgia. ship on January 1, 1923, was re- He investigated, went into the elected in 1930 and became the pool daily for three weeks, and 82nd President of the United discovered that improvement was States in January, 1938, at the marked. He discarded the crutches age of 51