The Archive · 1932

Mr. Roosevelt and Prohibition

Washington, July 25.

One of the. first acts Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt Who is elected, President next November, will be to summon special session of Congress. to rmiodify the Prohibition laws as ment, '2 means of relieving unemploy-

"This announcement is made fan interview with the Gover~ hor's son, Sr. James Roosevelt. ter. tion publicly-owned railways [demands the complete confidence of the owners in, the management.

He added: "Public criticism me ducates that such confidence is at least of, general and, in, view, of the financial depression, and the fact that. the Royal Conumission ig, investigating the whole railway situa tion, 1 feel that T should tender my

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