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In 1919 Mark Sullivan settled permanently in Washington as a political correspondent, first for the Democratic, liberal New York Evening Post, after 1924 for the Herald Tribune. Also in 1919 he lost his leader. With the death of Roosevelt I, the crusading fervor went out of the Sullivan dispatches. His...
Arthur Lehman, No. 2 partner, son of Mayer (and brother of New York's Governor Herbert Lehman) is head of The Lehman Corp., an investment trust which the brothers founded in September 1929. He collects tapestries, heads Jewish charity drives, gave Lehman Hall (administration building) to Harvard in 1924...
¶ Another early visitor was Admiral William H. Standley, Chief of Naval Operations. According to Admiral Standley, he and his Commander-in-Chief "talked fishing and the Navy." Still talking Navy two days later, the President made Navy Day (Roosevelt I's birthday) the occasion to write Secretary of...
>The Rev. Ira M. Hargett of Kansas City: I suggest that you cease having political powwows on the Sabbath Day, such as you have had recently; that you cease making the Sabbath a holiday for boating and fishing and that you attend church regularly as an example to the young...
Franklin Roosevelt countered by organizing the Jeffersonian Party. Republicans nominated Honest Walt Trowbridge who spoke well but promised little. But "Buzz" Windrip raved like a madman, assisted in his ravings by his creepy publicity agent and fixer, Lee Sarason. His followers got publicity by making speeches in strange places, such...