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...with a cheery wave, "everything is going to be all right." Roosevelt rain began to fall as the President got back to his train to find 5,000 cheering Bismarckians awaiting him. "Back East," he told them, "there have been all kinds of reports that out in the drought area there was a despondency, a lack of hope for the future and a general atmosphere of gloom. But I had a hunch, and it was the right one, that when I got out here I would find that you people had your chins up. ... I get a picture which reassures...
...Governor's Island in New York Harbor as Chief of Staff of the 2nd Corps Area went Colonel Ulysses S. Grant 3rd, grandson of the 18th President...
Last week when Franklin Roosevelt's special train rolled into Bismarck, N. Dak. in the course of its travels through the drought area, it also rolled into a story which brought nationwide attention to a smalltown newspaper. Aboard the Presidential Pullmans were placed scores of copies of the Fargo (N. Dak.) Forum, whose front page displayed a strange yarn. Because a corps of the nation's nimblest newshawks were also on the train, Republican editors throughout the land were soon rubbing their hands over a dispatch which, on quick reading, seemed to convict the New Deal...
Retorted the doughty little Fargo Forum: "Especially revealing! . . . Last May we did not have a drought either in Pennington County, in South Dakota or elsewhere in this area...
...difference is that whereas the greater proportion of 1929 sales was by mail order, today mail orders account for only some 40% of Sears Roebuck's business and more than a third of the stores which are now its cornerstone are situated in the comparatively small but populous area of the northeastern seaboard States...