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PRESIDENT S PERSONAL FILE
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Gifts D
July-Dec. ***** 1939
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Pres Stady
pp.7
9.00
July 7, 1939
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My dear Mr. Dobbs:
Permit me, please, to acknowl-
edge the receipt of and to thank you for
the copy of the book which you sent to
the President. You may be sure that your
courtesy is much appreciated.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
John F Dobbs, Esq.,
5162 Eagle Rock Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
California.
7
July 6, 1939
Touroon
PPA 9/10
My dear Mr. Dreyfuss:
The President has asked me to thank
you ever so much for your letter of recent date,
with the enclosed copy of your book, "10 Years
of Industrial Design". He wants you to know how
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much he appreciates the thoughtful spirit which
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prompted you to send it.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
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Henry Dreyfuss, Esq.,
501 Madison Avenue at 52nd Street,
New York, N. Y.
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The President of the United States
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:-
This month marks our 10th year in Industrial
Design.
As a record, we have put together a few
of the designs we have made since 1929.
I hope you will enjoy looking through
this book.
I am, dear Mr. President,
Yours HD:C sincerely,
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July 6, 1939
My dear Mr. Dorsey:
This will acknowledge the receipt
of your book which you were good enough to send
to the President, and I want to thank you most
cordially, in his behalf, for your kind thought.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Theodore H. Dorsey, Esq.,
1053 Pine Avenue,
Long Beach,
California.
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July 6, 1939
Gentlemen:
The President asks me to send you
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this little note to thank you for your kind-
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ness in sending him the book, "America Y Hostos".
He wants you to know that he deeply appreciates
your thought of him.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
De Hostos Centenary Commission,
San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
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President F.D. Roosevelt
The White House
Washington, D.C.
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July 7, 1939
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My dear Mr. de Graff:
Your letter to the President of
June twenty-second, with the enclosed
announcement, and the books which you for-
warded under separate cover, have been
received. I am sure that he will be
interested in reading them and would want
me to thank you very much for your friendly
thought of him.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Robert F. de Graff, Esq.,
386 Fourth Avenue,
New York, N. Y.
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President F.D. Roosevelt
The White House
Washington, D.C.
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Pocket BOOKS
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386 FOURTH AVE.
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MURRAY HILL 5-3584
June 22, 1939
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Dear President Roosevelt,
Because of your interest in extending the
frontiers of book distribution and your emphasis on the
need for freer communication of ideas within the democratic
process, I am confident you would like to learn something
about the new plan for making the best books available in
unabridged form at twenty-five cents a copy.
As you have doubtless learned from Mr. Morris
Ernst, such a new enterprise as this would have been
virtually impossible except for the new postage rates on
books announced by your recent Executive Proclamation.
Therefore I thought you would be doubly interested.
In the attached first announcement I have
set forth the editorial research background of the new
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publishing plan, and the long-range publishing objectives,
together with a list of the first ten titles, and preliminary
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comments from leading educators and men of letters.
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By separate post I am taking the liberty of
presenting the first ten books in this series to you.
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These books are designed to extend the
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frontiers of book distribution to the thirty to fifty
million people in America who hitherto have not had the
time, the money, or the space to own and to read really
good books.
With renewed gratitude and high regard,
I am
Yours faithfully,
Roht Robert F. 7-debraff de Graff
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enclosure
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President F.D. Roosevelt
The White House
Washington, D.C.
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From Robert F. de Graff
Pocket BOOKS
JUN 19 1939
386 Fourth Avenue, New York City
CONFIDENTIAL until then.
Telephone: Murray Hill 5-3584
FAMOUS UNABRIDGED BEST-SELLERS AT TWENTY FIVE
CENTS EACH FEATURED IN NEW "Pocket BOOKS"
PUBLISHING PLAN.
AIMED AT "THIRTY MILLION AMERICANS WHO WANT TO
BUY GOOD BOOKS AND CAN'T AFFORD To."
FIRST TEN TITLES RELEASED.
PLAN ENDORSED BY LEADING EDUCATORS AND MEN OF LETTERS
A revolutionary publishing plan which will make available the most famous best-
selling books of our time in unabridged form at twenty-five cents a copy was launched
today by Robert F. de Graff with the publication of his first ten "Pocket BOOKS."
While new to this country, the "Pocket BOOK" idea has enjoyed spectacular success in
Europe where the low-priced Penguin and Tauchnitz Editions reportedly distribute
from forty to fifty million copies a year.
The first titles selected for "Pocket BOOKS" are:
LOST HORIZON by James Hilton
BAMBI by Felix Salten
THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD by Agatha Christie
WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte
ENOUGH ROPE by Dorothy Parker
TOPPER by Thorne Smith
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
WAKE UP AND LIVE! by Dorothea Brande
SHAKESPEARE'S FIVE TRAGEDIES - ("Macbèth", "Julius Caesar", "Hamlet",
"Romeo and Juliet", "King Lear"), with introductions by John Masefield,
all in one volume.
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
The publisher of this new series announces that he will utilize not only the
regular channels of book distribution, but that "Pocket BOOKS" will also be available
in drug and cigar stores, and on newsstands, many of which have hitherto confined
themselves exclusively to magazines. In this way, he expects to "open up new fron-
tiers for the distribution of literature on a scale never before possible."
Mr. de Graff has been a pioneer in the development of lower-priced book pub-
lishing. Fourteen years ago he originated the Garden City Publishing Company's line
of Star Dollar reprints, of which 15 million copies have been sold. He left to be-
come president of Blue Ribbon Books, bringing out reprints of popular bestsellers
at prices ranging down to 39 cents. A year ago he resigned in order to make an ex-
haustive investigation of what book readers wanted.
Page 2.
From this research, Mr. de Graff learned two things: that there is an enormous
unsatisfied demand not only for good books at low cost, but also for smaller sized
books, provided large type and good paper are used. Accordingly "Pocket BOOKS" were
designed to readily slip into a man's pocket or a woman's handbag. They measure four
and a quarter inches by six and a half by a half inch. This compactness which reduces
a 380 page book to pocket size was accomplished by the elimination of excessive mar-
gins and the use of special lightweight, but opaque paper. The carrying weight was
further cut down by doing away with bulky cloth and board binding, and substituting
the new soil-and waterproof Dura-gloss covers. Each book is printed from type at
least as large as that used in the original edition.
"I believe this is a revolutionary plan in publishing", said Mr. de Graff,
"because for years visitors returning from Europe have asked the publishers of America
why good books could not be issued at lower prices. Several experiments in this
direction have been tried, but they have never gone all the way, and they have never
concentrated literally on the best books. In the past it has been maintained that
Americans will not buy Pocket-Size books the way cultured Europeans have been doing
for years. It has also been assumed that cheap books - for the 25 cent market -
must be of a low common denominator - the sort that will compete with the 'pulp'
and 'trash' market and magazines of vast circulation. I am convinced that the mass
American reading public wants the best in books - and is not content with the in-
ferior brand of Westerns, Detectives, and cheap Romances. I venture to question the
traditional beliefs, and am prepared to make this conscientious and thoroughgoing
experiment to prove my faith in the pent-up American demand for genuinely good and
enduring books at irresistibly low prices, with almost literally universal distri-
bution.
The "Pocket BOOK" plan has already received the endorsement of authors and
educators, including Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, Oswald Garrison Villard, Clifton
Fadiman, H. V. Kaltenborn, Christopher Morley, Dale Carnegie, Fanny Hurst, Lowell
Thomas, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Will Durant, and Nicholas Murray Butler.
According to Will Durant, "There are 30,000,000 people in America who want to
buy good books and can't afford to. I heartily approve of this enterprise in under-
taking to supply good literature in pocket-sized editions at a. low price." Dr. Nich-
olas Murray Butler, considers the new plan "a marked contribution to our educational
instrumentalities."
Note for Editors:
Pre-view sample copies of "Pocket BOOKS" available on request.
Robert F. de Graff
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July 7, 1939
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My dear Mr. Duimovich:
The statuette which you were good
enough to send to the President has been
received, and your tindly thought is indeed
appreciated by him. He asks me to convey
his warm thanks to you for this evidence of
your friendly good will.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
CWS
Nick Duimovich, Esq.,
2526 Jordan Road, Route 2,
Westerville,
Ohio.
(Selfaddrund stamped envelope returned 7/10/39)
(addmard - R.F.D,no.3 - Werlimele, Ohio)
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Westerville ohio
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Westerville Ohio
may 3 1939.
Raosevelt
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The White House
Washing ton M. C.
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Nick Duimovich of 2526 Jor-
don road, cut this statue of mar-
ble to send to President Roose-
velt. It is nine inches high and
e writer, a resident of
the base is four by six inches.
inty Ohio, and a skilled
Monumental worker, has spent manny
of his Leasure hours in the carving
of a statue (minature) of White marble
This statute has been mailed
to your adress yesterday parcel post)
l have long been an admirer of
your radio takes and administration
and trust that this statuete will win
a place in your collection of gifts
from loyal and admireing friends
yours Respectfully
nick Alumovith
2526 Jardon Road R3
Westerville ohio
Twin-Power
plow shart
Westerville Ohio
may 3- 1939.
Franklin D. Raosevelt
President u. s.a.
The White House
Washing ton M. @
Mear Mr. President
The writer, a resident of
Franklin County Ohio, and a skilled
Monumental worker, has spent manny
of his Leasure hours in the carving
of a statue (minature) of White marble
This statute has been mailed
to your adress yesterday parcel post)
l have long been an admirer of
your radio takks and administration
and trust that this statuete will win
a place in your collection of gifts
from loyal and admireing friends
yours Respectfully
nick Alumovith
2526 Jardan Road R3
Westerville ohio
or
Westerville ohio
Ed" ray moprof 2526
nick Diumovich
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JUL 6 (Plumbus Ohio
mrs Elinar Rossevelt
July 2 1939
The White house
Dear Mrs Roosevelt. Washing ton D.P
writer forwarded, by Parcel Post
Several months ago the
a statuette of White marble
This statuette adressed
was
to President Roosevelt.
not having heard afits
androws to know whether
arrival at his Office I am
it has been received there
awaiting your reply. l
enclose a self adressed envelope
for your convenience
yours Respectfully
nick Numovich
Route 3 Westerville Ohio
mrs
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July 7, 1939
My dear Mr. Dreyer:
The President has asked me to thank
you for your nice note of recent date, and to
assure you of his appreciation of your thought-
fulness in sending the ash tray holder to him.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. Lelland
PRIVATE SECRETARY
S. A. Dreyer, Esq.,
Dreyer Manufacturing Company,
Route #1, Box 438,
Spring Valley,
New York,
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to
Honerable F.D. Rooservelt
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Washington,
D.C.
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Under seperate cover we are
sending a Duplex Deluxe Ash Tray Holder,
which we hope you may attach it to your
favored lamp, and may it give you pleasure
and comfort in its convenience.
May you continue to enjoy the
best orts. of health and success in all your eff
pr7.
Sincerly yours
s.a. Dreyer.
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Dreyer Mfg, Co.
Spring Valley,
N.Y.
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Rt, I. Box, 438
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My dear lb. Davidson:
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Permit me, please, to acknowledge
receipt of the copies of the "Jewlsh Forum".
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I can assure you that the President much ap+
preciates your courtesy in sending then to
him.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LoHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
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Joseph E. Devidson, Esq.,
360 Riverside Drive,
New York, N.Y.
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July 12, 1939
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My dear Mrs. Darvay:
Permit me, please, to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of June twenty-eighth.
The President thanks you very much indeed for
the beautiful hand work and he wants you to know
that he is deeply grateful for the friendly spirit
which prompted its presentation.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt have
asked me to convey their very best wishes to you
for your health and happiness.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. Lelland
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Mrs. Hermina Darvay,
25 State Street,
Norwalk,
Ohio.
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(NOTE: Send letter and carbon copy of ackgmt, together with gift
to Mrs. Somerville.) O.K.
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norwalk, Ohio.
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Darvay:
I have received your letter of
February third, and, in compliance with your
request, the handwork is being returned to
you under separate cover. I an glad indeed
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to learn that your daughter has been restored
to good health.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Mrs. Hermina Darvay,
25 State Street,
Norwalk,
Ohio.
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My dear Mrs. Darvay:
I have received your letter of
February third, and, in compliance with your
request, the handwork is being returned to
you under separate cover. I am glad indeed
to learn that your daughter has been restored
to good health.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Mrs. Hermina Darvay,
25 State Street,
Norwalk,
Ohio.
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are returning the handwork which
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Feb. 3, 1940.
M. A. LE H.
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Washington Dear Sir: -
l peul h Mr. A Mars in June, 1939,
Two pieces of handwork (on valuet, burning and pointing
to at hand
of which your acknowledg Gewent of receipt of July twelith
the direct frays afd now here is a request her I must
us hope of recovery somehow she survived which throagh
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respectfully theake. She is making living Hogether
some other) with This type of work, and as she
allow me to ask you th do me fact send those
needs the above mentioned picks the for patterns kindly
pieces back to me.
Thanking you in advance for your kindness,
25 State St.
your respectfully, I am,
norwalk, Ohio.
Mrs. Hernina Darray.
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My dear Mrs. Davidson:
I am sure you will pardon my delay
in telling you how much the President en-
joyed your friendly letter.
He appreciates your thoughtfulness
in sending him the book to which you refer,
and has asked me to convey his sincere good
wishes to you and to your father.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
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Mrs. Rose Davidson,
Brady,
Texas.
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pride in our Democratic leader-
you have gi tru him great
pleasure ui many hays 50
please accept this small hot
as a token of my gratihede
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to matters of geographic interest and political matters
sal geography. They are planning to run an article on
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visited the President in June, presented him with a
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an thereon, and run it for their publication. (No corres-
atation of gift. Probably handled verbally when Somoza
rim to Miss Shannon 7-25-59, that Somoza did present
map of Hicaragua, but due to climatic changes, it is
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JONES, Mr. Tom C., Publisher,
The Geographical Publishing Co.,
Chicago, Ill.
July 25, 1939.
Write to the President they are publishers of a monthly magazine purchased
principally by schools and libraries. Title of the publication is NEWSMAP and the
contents devoted principally to matters of geographic interest and political matters
that have an effect on political geography. They are planning to run an article on
the proposed Nicaraguan Canal. In the course of their investigations, they find that
Gen. Somoza of Nicaragua, who visited the President in June, presented him with a
desk or table, on which an inlaid map of Nicaragua is the outstanding feature. They
would like, if possible to obtain a photograph of the desk top, so that they could .
reproduce the map that appears thereon, and run it for their publication. (No corres-
pondence in file re the presentation of gift. Probably handled verbally when Somoza
was here.)
Memo attached from Mr. Crim to Miss Shannon 7-25-59, that Somoza did present
a table to the President with map of Nicaragua, but due to elimatic changes, it is
going through a warping process, and he does not know whether in it's present condition
it is a fit subject for photography.
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SUMMERLIN, George T.
Department of State
July 24, 1939
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by menorandum for General Watson, Mr. Sunserlin enclosed a copy of 8 note
Mayor of Saint-Die, and a delegation of citizens from that city will be in liash-
dated July 11 from the French imbassador, in which be states that II, Jacquerez,
ington and would like to be received by the President. Asks General Watson if
he will receive the Mayor and one or two members of the delegation on the 26th.
- Gen. letson S&W then on July 26, 1939. - Letter from the State Dept., August
Srd, transmitting papers and draft of reply. Gen. Watson signed reply, dated
August Ind, and returned it to the State Dept. for transmittal to the American Consul
at Strasbourg for delivery to Mr. Leon Jacquerez. - Papers given to the President.
President by Mr. Jacquerez.
Attached to correspondence in file is a copy of the list of Documents left for the
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My dear Mr. Davis:
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President that inscribed copy of "Debutante's
Delight," and I want to thank you in his behalf
for your courtesy.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Meyer Davis, Esq.,
221 West 57th Street,
New York, N. Y.
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My dear Chairman Desmond:
Permit me to acknowledge the receipt
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of your letter of August third, addressed to the
President, and express to you his sincere thanks
for the gift sent to him by the onion farmers of
Orange County, New York.
The President regrets very much that
it will-be impossible for him personally to attend
the Onion Harvest Festival at Florida, New York,
on August fifteenth, He asked me, however, to
express, through you, his best wishes for the
success of the Festival,
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Very sincerely yours,
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STEPHEN EARLY
Secretary to the President
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Honorable Thomas C, Desmond,
94 Broadway,
Newburgh, New York.
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August 7, 1939
My dear Chadrman Desmonds
Permit me to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of August third, addressed to the
President, and express to you his sincere thanks
for the gift sent to him by the onion farmers of
Orange County, How York.
The President regrets very much that
it will be impossible for him personally to attend
the Onion Harvest Festival at Florida, New York,
on August fifteenth. He asked me, however, to
express, through you, his best wishes for the
success of the Festival,
Very sincerely yours,
STEPHEN EARLY
Secretary to the President
Honorable Thomas C. Desmond,
94 Broadway,
Newburgh, New York.
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THE SENATE
STATE OF NEW YORK
THOMAS C. DESMOND
ALBANY
CHAIRMAN
COMMITTEE ON AFFAIRS OF CITIES
94 Broadway,
Newburghy New York,
August 3, 1939.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
Dear President Roosevelt:
Reid
In behalf of the onion farmers of Orange
County, New York, I am forwarding to you by express a 50
but
pound bag of onions as a gift, to call your attention to Orange
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County's first Onion Harvest Festival which will be held at Florida,
New York, on August 15, 1939. On that day, thousands of
ask'd
onion farmers of Orange County and vicinity will gather
together there to participate in the festival, which is anmed
to focus public attention on the onion as a healthful food.
As a neighboring farmer of Dutchess County, you
are hereby extended a cordial invitation to attend the
ceremonies in Orange County, which produces the most valuable
onion crop of any county in the United States.
Should it be impossible because of the press
of public business or for other reasons for you
to attend this onion harvest festival, perhaps you might wish
to convey some message to the onion farmers. I know that they
will greatly appreciate receiving a message from the President
of the United States. It would give me great pleasure to
present your message to the onion farmers of this county.
With cordial personal regards, I am
Simerely yours,
Thanks C. Demond
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August 1, 1939
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Respectfully referred to the
Department of State for such acknowl-
edgment as may be deemed appropriate.
Attention Mr. Summerlin.
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
mgs
DIDIER-SAYET, 10 Avenue du General Maistre, Paris XIVᵉ, 7/9. Encloses
proofs (wood engravings) of the President which he asks be accepted
with his compliments
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woodcut filed in Legal Case
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Didier-Sayet
Painter and Engraver.
10 Avenue du General Maistre
Paris XIVᵉ
mr. Latta
July 9, 1939.
The President of the
Republic of the United States of America.
Please do me the honor to accept the homage of a
few proofs (wood engraving) of your portrait in the proud
attitude in which it seemed to me that I saw you at the
time when you uttered, late in September 1938, the words
which were so noble and which prevented the cataclysm.
Please accept, Mr. President, the assurance of the
deeply respectful sentiments of a veteran of 1914 to 1918.
Didier-Sayet
TR:JWP:JP
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July 21, 1939.
and acknowl edgment.
THE WHITE HOUSE
SUPERVISION OF AND PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
M.WATSON
RECEIVED
WASHINGTON
General U.S.Army
PARTMENT OF STATE
JUL 21 1939
V 7/9/39 Sent to State
1939 JUL 21 PM 2 43
JOEPARTMENT OF STATE
8/39 Filed in affidavit
believe that such viola-
ONS
AND RECORDS
Respectfully referred to the
L4/39 Askong for a govt.
State Department for translation.
sent to Civil Service Comn
y)Asking for the land
39 Asking Senator Brown
E.M. WATSON
ims there must be a
Brigadier General U.S. Army
Dept
/39 Transmitted by Senator
is case with the Pres. as it
S of Bill S-595 Sent to
59 Would lose the farm
Credit
: 7/19/39 Believes he is
le Panama Canal Sent to WAR
to Herbert Goose Creek
ose Creek postmaster
"Réported appointee
ept.
39 In letter of appreciat*
ssal from his position beca-
residents likeness sent to
/20/39 Cornfield Observa-
FEINMEL, Lily Fred 2985 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, N.Y. Desires personal
attention aid and an interview in re purchasing described property
and converting it into home for heart victims sent to U.S.P.H.S.
t
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rin
July 21, 1939.
Respectfully referred by memo for consideration and acknowl edgment.
E.M.WATSON
Brigadier General U.S.Army
Didier- Sayet 10 Avenue Du General Maistre Paris XIV 7/9/39 Sent to State
for translation
COVERT, John W. 152 Lillian Ave., Trenton, N.J. 7/18/39 Filed in affidavit
form a charge against the WP.A and he refuses to believe that such viola-
tions can go unheeded. Sent to W.P.A.
LYONS, Selma 619 South Cecelia Stioux City, Iowa 7/14/39 Askong for a govt.
position for a girl with infantile paralysis sent to Civil Service Comm
WHINERY, A. J. Pietown, New Mex. 7/16/39( of Whinney)Asking for the land
be given to them Sent to Interior Dept.
FLE icher, MillardR. R.R.#1. Grass Lake Michigan 7/18/39 Asking Senator Brown
to give the enclosed letter to the President. Claims there must be a
redistribution of wealth etc., sent to Treasury Dept
KRAUSS, William A. 322 25th St. Galveston, Texas 7/15/39 Transmitted by Senator
Connally Appeals to Senator Connally to take up his case with the Pres. as it
appears the old timors are left out of the benefits of Bill S-595 Sent to
Treasury Dept. Enclosures.
STECK, Benj. L. or Beryl L. Steck Maquon, Ill 7/19/39 Would lose the farm
unless the Pres. helps them sent to Agri. Farm Credit
WOOD George W. 2522 Orella St. Santa Barbara Calif 7/19/39 Believes he is
entitled to some benefits regarding his work on the Panama Canal Sent to WAR
Committee Florence McElhaney, Rev. Warner Hassler, G. Herbert Goose Creek
Texas 7/21/39 Telegram." Delay appointment of Goose Creek postmaster
irregularity in establishing eligible reggist55r. "Réported appointee
relative of Cong. Thomas" Sent to Post Office Dept.
EDWARDS, Charles 310 so. 10th St. Ohila. Pa. 6/20/39 In letter of appreciate
ion and encouragement writer tells of his dismissal from his position beca-
use he a republican suggested a coin with the Presidents likeness sent to
Treasury Dept
MAYER, Edward R. 803 Rule Bldg., Amarillo, Texas 7/20/39 Cornfield Observa-
tions loans to business etc., sent to R.F.C.
FEINMEL, Lily Fred 2985 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, N.Y. Desires personal
attention aid and an interview in re purchasing described property
and converting it into home for heart victims sent to U.S.P.H.S.
DRESS OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
In reply refer to
PR 811. 001 Roosevelt - Gifts - Didier-Sayet, August 31, 1939
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My dear Miss LeHand:
With reference to your memorandum of August 1,
1939, I am returning herewith the four prints of a
woodcut of the President, sent to him by M. Didier-
Sayet of Paris, France.
The American Ambassador at Paris has been requested
to inform Mr. Didier Sayet of the President's apprecia-
tion of his courtesy.
Sincerely yours,
JJunnehi Chief of Protocol.
Enclosures:
4 priints.
Miss Marguerite A. LeHand,
Private Secretary to the President,
The White House.
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Central Falls, R. I.
August 9, 1939.
Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
President of the United States,
Hyde Park, New York.
My dear Mr. President:
I had the good fortune of listening
over the radio to your talk before the Retailer's Associa-
tion at Washington. The major problems which you have to
resolve for the benefit of all of us and the little help
which the so-called "better minds" of the Country can con-
tribute in such matters was very impressive.
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An inspiration came to me, some time
pr.7, q-p
ago, which I put on canvas and entitled "Resignation of Je-
sus". This painting was given to the Vatican; the subject
being better suited for that library. Cardinal Maglione,
Secretary of His Holiness, sent me a communication dated
April 28th, reading partly as follows:
" The Holy Father (pius X11) has been profoundly
touched by the artistic painting, "The Resignation
of Jesus", that you have so kindly offered him as
a gift.
The August Pontiff has remarked the deep religious
sentiment which has inspired its pictorial composi-
tion and the expert workmanship with which it has
been executed. 11
Lithographies of this painting were
made and I should appreciate very much your accepting one as
a gift; which gift in itself is not a token of the considera-
tion I have for you, but, in your darkest moments, should my
inspiration inspire you as much as I am inspired, the most
difficult problems to be resolved for the benefit of the na-
tion should be a light burden compared to the suffering depict-
ed in my painting.
Bien respectvensement
LORENZO DE NEVERS,
81 Summit Street,
Central Falls, R.I.
Loungo che Nevers
annonl mel
August 16, 1939
My dear Mr. de Nevers:
It was thoughtful of you to send the
President a lithographic copy of your painting.
He is most appreciative of your kindness and
has asked me to thank you ever so much for this
evidence of your friendly interest.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Lorenzo de Nevers, Esq.,
81 Summit Street,
Central Falls,
Rhode Island.
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N.E. Peabody Home M
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This is the
copy of painting I asked
you to keep.
CAN.
MN none
September 1, 1939
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acknowledgment as may
DU deemed appropriate.
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
mgs
DOHTCHEVITVH, Douchan Do, sends his book entitledd "L'experience de
la Tennessee Valley Authority"
TANNER, F. H., Middle Musquadolroit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia,
Canada, 8/26. Thinks a fire station built to register fires
could be devised and offers suggestion to the President for his
use.
GRIFFIN, Watson, 196 Jameson Ave,, Toronto, Canada, 8/29. Suggests
recommendation to Permany of the transfer of territories by
them and Poland.
N.E. Peabody Home
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Mr none
September 1, 1939
P.P.7
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Department for such acknowledgment as may
be deemed appropriate.
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
mgs
DOHTCHEVITVH, Douchan Do, sends his book entitledd "L'experience de
la Tennessee Valley Authority"
TANNER, F. H., Middle Musquadolroit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia,
Canada, 8/26. Thinks a fire station built to register fires
could be devised and offers suggestion to the President for his
use.
GRIFFIN, Watson, 196 Jameson Ave,, Toronto, Canada, 8/29. Suggests
recommendation to Permany of the transfer of territories by
them and Poland,
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September 18, 1939
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My dear Mrs. Dione:
Your letter of September ninth, to the
President, has been received and he appreciates
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the evidence of friendly interest and good will
P.P.7.9-P
which it conveys. He has asked me to thank you,
took for your thoughtfulness in sending him the
little gift.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Mrs. Anna Dione,
6 Singer Place,
Glen Cove,
New York.
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My dear Mr. Diamond:
The President was much pleased to re-
ceive your friendly note of September ninth
and thanks you indeed for the picture which
you made for him.
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He has directed me to send a few stamps
to you with the thought that you and your asso-
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clates in the hospital might care to have them.
The stamps are being forwarded under separate
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cover.
The President asks me to convey his
sincere good wishes to you.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
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Charles Diamond, Esq.,
N. E. Peabody Home,
Newton Centre,
Massachusetts.
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(box of stamps to be sent out)
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newton Centre,Mass.
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September 9,1939
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Dear Mr. President;
9-13-39
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l sent you a picture of the
United States Capital made out
of some stamps. I hope you will
like it as much as I enjoyed
making it for you.
it have been in this hospital
for ten years and Imcollecting
stamps. l have 4,200 and 560
United States Stamps.
Sincerely yours,
Charles Diamond
P.S. I hear that you collect stamps too
so I guess we have something in common.
se UCBOWER, ESQ.,
Schuyler,
Nebraska.
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October 5, 1939
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My dear Mr. DeBower:
Please let me acknowledge your
letter of September twenty-ninth to the
President and thank you, in his behalf, for
the book which you were good enough to
forward to him under separate cover. You
may be sure that your thoughtfulness is very
much appreciated.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Dd DeBower, Esq.,
Schuyler,
Nebraska.
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Book Thanks Truth and Kandedge
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Schuyler, Nebraska.
September 29, 1939.
achida 10-3'
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear President:
Under separate cover I am sending you my
book The Great Contest. I hope you will have time to
read it and trust that you will find it interesting and
edifying.
Especially, would I like to draw your
attention to: An Answer to the President, Page 75. Also
to: World Organization, Page 162.
Yours truly,
Ed, Lle Bower
Ed DeBower
N.B.
We have neither authority nor are we under
obligation to police the world. If the world
will listen to our council, we should render it;
otherwise, we should tend to our own business.
In view of our dark and debt-burdened future,
our own country is far from being happy.
T.A.
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DREISER, Theodore,
Hollywood, Calif.
Oct. 16, 1939.
sends President three of his latest books, entitled, "Thorneau", "Moods
Cadenced and Declaimed", and "Twelve Men".
Gift personally acknowledged by President, 10-25-39.
See P.P.F.5482
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October 25, 1939
P.P.7.
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My dear Mr. Dingess:
The President thanks you ever so much
for those miniature souvenir boots, He wants
you to know that he is deeply grateful for the
friendly thought which prompted you to send them
to him.
Very sincerely yours,
11. A, Lelland
PRIVATE SECRETARY
W. S. Dingess, Esq.,
Englowood,
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Kansas,
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with kept
October 27, 1939
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My dear Mr. Dyer:
Permit me, please, to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of October fourteenth,
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and the accompanying booklet. I want to assure
you that this treatise and the comments you make
will be made available to the President.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LoHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
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Honorable John Napier Dyer,
McKenney Farms,
Vincennes,
Indiana.
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JOHN NAPIER DYER
m'kenney FARMS
VINCENNES, INDIANA
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September 27, 1940
PRIVATE
My dear Mr. Dyer:
My dear I am terribly sorry to have
been so long in replying to your letter
ago
I
sent
to
the
President the manuscript of a book I have had in con-
of August twenty-eighth. time. Now the book is to be pub-
lished. Apparently the President was not interested
in the manuser I find that the manuscript returned top Bett
would greatly appreciate it
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of your book has been sent to the Library
5720 20
If Mr Roosevelt would like to
at Hyde Park for safekeeping. Under the to sent it to
him since the book contains AL chapter ob two which
circums tances, I wonder if you would Prove more suitable
for his interests.
good enough to let us keep 1t.
The title of the manuscript is
The Peril of Pesalty sincerely yours, veral months ago.
Thanking you very much for your
courtesy, I am,
M. A. LeHAND
Private Secretary Sincerely
John Napier Cyer, Esq.,
McKenney Farms,
Vinoennes,
John Napier Dyer.
Indiana.
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To/
Miss Margaret LeHand,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
befavee
JOHN NAPIER DYER
MCKENNEY FARMS
VINCENNES, INDIANA
August 28th 1940.
My dear Miss LeHand,
A little while ago I sent to the
President the manuscript of a book I have had in con-
templation for some time. Now the book is to be pub-
lished. Apparently the President was not interested
in the manuscript and if it can be returned to me I
would greatly appreciate it.
If Mr. Roosevelt would like to
have a copy of the book I will be glad to sent it to
him since the book contains a chapter ot two which
is not in the manuscript it might prove more suitable
for his interests.
The title of the manuscript is
The Peril of Pesantryrand was sent several months ago.
Thanking you very much for your
courtesy, I am,
Sincerely,
John Napier Dyer.
To/
Miss Margaret LeHand,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
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October Two
1940
October 8, 1940
PRIVATE
keep
Peril
My dear Mr. Dyer:
that
Thank you for your letter of October
second and for the additional chapter which you
sent along so that it may be appended to your
manuscript. I do want to assure you that the
courtesy you have extended to us is very much ap-
preciated.
Very sincerely yours,
in
A.
The
White
House
D.
C.
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
John Napier Dyer, Esq.,
McKenney Farms,
Vincennes,
Indiana.
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MCKENNEY FARMS
and
vincennes, INDIANA
October Two
1940
That ENB
Dear Miss LeHand:
This acknowledges
your letter of September 27th.
Indeed you may keep
the manuscript entitled "The Peril
of Peasantry" but I must ask that
you attach to it the last chapter
of the book entitled "Facts".
Herewith I am send-
ing you the additional pages consecu-
tively numbered to be added to the
manuscript which you have sent to the
Library at Hyde Park.
Justiper John Sincerely, Napier Dyer Sin
Miss M. A. LeHand
The White House
Washington, D. C.
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FACTS
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FACTS
The economic conditions existing in this
country today are tragic. Our government has
violated the simplest fundamental economic
principles of fair barter and exchange. We have
ruthlessly destroyed the law of supply and demand
of our basic raw material products by withholding
the essential factor which has to do with the
operation of that law, the medium of exchange.
No sensible person, studying the facts
concerning consumption and production in this
country, can, by any conceivable stretch of the
imagination, support the theory that over-
production was the cause of our economic collapse.
The richest country in all the world, we
have a greater abundance of intelligence, raw
materials, fertile land, industrial development,
qualified labor, tremendous capital and yet,
many millions of our people are wholly lacking
in the common necessities of life; the direct
cause of under-consumption.
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FACTS
Under-consumption is the inability of the
masses of people to buy the products of our
farms and factories. The law of supply and
demand will function only when the medium of
exchange comes into play.
No person with common intelligence will
say that we lack the demand to consume our
supplies of vital necessities when 40 million
people are ill fed and ill clothed and yet,
the head of our greatest government agency,
the Department of Agriculture, had advocated
the killing of pigs, the plowing under of
cotton, the limiting of corn planting, reducing the
sowing of wheat in order to justify his ill
conceived policy of creating scarcity in order
to attempt to influence prices of farm commodities
upward. The proof of the fallicy of such a
weird scheme, if proof is necessary, is the fact
that our country is in great economic distress.
It is shouldering a colossal debt of 45 Billion
dollars, whether we owe it to ourselves or not,
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is beside the point, which will have to be paid
by the oncoming generations of Americans or
repudiated by the collapse of our government.
So-called economists in the employ of the
government continually stress the importance
of low and lower prices to encourage consumption.
If low prices produce boom conditions and are
a boon to both production and consumption, as
the economists say, why is it when in 1928
we had the greatest prosperity our country has
ever known with the greatest production of raw
materials selling at the highest prices, while
in 1932 with the same full measure of raw
materials, selling at the lowest prices in 25
years, we hit a lower economic bottom than
has been recorded in half a century?
These theoretical economists have brought
us to the verge of national bankruptcy. If
we are to avoid plunging into the economic abyss
the country had better change economic leaders
and do an about face before it is too late.
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FACTS
Suppose the steel and automobile industries,
the greatest business enterprises in the country,
except agriculture, were not protected by
monopolistic controls and were forced to sell
their products on a world price basis, determined
by speculative gambling, how long would those
industries avoid bankruptcy? I ask you, my reader.
"Count that day lost
Whose low descending sun
Sees prices shot to glory
And business done for fun."
is a trite rejoinder for those who would do business
at a loss.
There can be no return to normal prosperity
for all people and all businesses, nor safe
security for our financial institutions, a pre-
requisite for the economic welfare of society,
until normal values are restored to our agricul-
tural products and a parity level of prices is
provided for in our economic system, which shall
not be influenced by any organized speculation.
People must lose sight of the idea that
capital and money are the fundamental factors
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in our domestic economic structure. The thing
which produces capital is the fundamental factor
in our whole economic equation; ie; LABOR-
industrial and agricultural.
Capital can have no value to society unless
and until it is employed to create the facilities
which employ labor in the production and distri-
bution of those things necessary for society.
It is the annually created new wealth
which is the vital thing to society and it is
the price tag we put on this newly created
wealth which determines the measure of our
economic well being.
In a country rich beyond the dreams of
avarice, with men, money and materials in
super abundance, but lacking in economic and
political leadership to solve the simple
problem of how to bring economic order out of
chaos, something is radically wrong.
Since cash farm income, regulated by the
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FACTS
price of our agricultural products, is always
in exact ratio to our industrial payrolls, it is
perfectly self evident that to keep men at work
in factories and industries, we must maintain
the constant level of our farm income.
Cash farm income and normal national income
being in exact ratio of 1 to 7, there can be
no disagreement with the statement that farm
income is the basic and fundamental factor in
our whole economy.
Every time we have had parity prices for
agricultural commodities, we have had a pros-
perous nation. But when we did have prices at
parity, it was just an accidental circumstance.
We were too lacking in economic intelligence
to recognize the factors which created the
prosperity and to maintain them.
If we had maintained the price level of
1926 a spending power of 235 Billion dollars
would have been saved for our people and there
would have been no depression to wreck the lives
and fortunes of millions of our citizens.
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FACTS
A sustained yearly national income of an
amount necessary to support the entire cost of
government can be obtained only by sustained
yearly prices on the parity level for all raw
material products.
Parity prices for raw material products
are the minimum prices set on the American
Standard level as basic. These minimum prices
must be stabilized at such levels as to insure
a free flow of goods and money to sustain a
healthy national income. Under this system
there will be no surpluses over the years. We
will, as we have in the past prosperous years,
find markets at home and abroad for all we can
produce. If our prosperity is to expand with
the increase in our population we must keep pace
with an ever increasing production to meet our
consumption requirements.
In our country today we are operating
under a two price system, one for industry and
one for agriculture, and our economy is never
in gear.
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FACTS
We produce agricultural raw materials on
the American high cost level and sell them on
the low price level of the world.
We protect industry by a tariff against
foreign low price competition and trade our
industrial products in the markets of the world
for raw material products, of which we produce
a surplus at home, thereby increasing our
domestic surpluses and forcing our agricultural
acres to lie idle, paying to our farmers a dole
for not producing.
Is there another nation so altruistic as
to put men to work in foreign countries to
supply that nation with food and clothing and
then put their own farmers on the WPA? We
plow under corn and kill little pigs in America
so we can buy corn in Argentine, pork in Poland
and corn beef in Paraguay. Surely that does not
make economic sense.
Let us not presume to assume that we can
continue on a two price system as we have done
for the past 20 years and get by with it for
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another 20 years. Bankruptcy will overtake the
nation long before that time,
We have learned by bitter experience that
just voting another political ticket is not
going to solve our economic problems, because
this two price system is a bi-partisan game,
supported by the gamblers, the exporters, the
importers, the transporters and the international
bankers. They work in both political parties, as
history has shown, for the benefit of the poli-
ticians and their own selfish aggrandizement.
What this country needs more than If a good
five cent cigar ", is the abolition of the two
price system and the putting of the two groups,
raw material producers and manufactured goods
producers, on the same parity price basis. The
influences which control the Congress are against
this constructive program. The major farm
organization is under the control and domination
of the commodity gamblers and the present agri-
cultural policies of the government are against it.
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FACTS
Bills in Congress to correct the evil condition
are held in committee while we pass into a new
crop year at the same low world prices to continue
the depression.
The economists condone a condition which
promotes poverty, hunger, misery, poor business for
the little fellows and good business for the
protected ones on the inside of a tariff wall where
prices are fixed above the profit level, while
forty million American people go to bed hungry
every night.
You must agree that the system is wrong, else
we would not continue in a depression. Ten years
of experimenting with all sorts of schemes, including
the AAA and FSCC, plowing under crops, killing little
pigs, limiting crop production in one area and
increasing production of the same crops in another
area, storing 500 million bushels of corn, keeping
people hungry and ragged and letting them suffer
from malnutrition, burying nineteen billion dollars
of gold in the hills of Kentucky, limiting the
distribution of money to fifty two million farm
people by keeping the prices of farm crops at the
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world scum level and giving farmers a dole
of a few million or a few hundred million dollars,
keeping ten million people out of jobs by
destroying farm buying power - well, if that is
not the wrong system, we are poor judges of
economics.
If this system is the result of democratic
capitalism and, in order to maintain democracy
and capitalism, we must remain in this chaotic
condition, it would be better that we try a
new system, parity prices, for industry, labor
and agriculture before doing away with capitalism
and democracy.
The facts herewith presented are self evident
and cannot be denied. As we impoverish agricul-
ture, we injure the rest of society. The added
billions of farm income will flow into industry
for the purchase of urgently needed goods and
will turn over in trade seven times in our
annually created wealth.
No form of inflation, reflation or currency
modification can so instantly effect our national
economy and insure the rehabilitation of our
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country's business as the restoration of billions
of dollars of farm crop money to the marts of
trade.
The mechanics of the plan are simple. The
present set up in the Department of Agriculture
can establish a positive form of market control
of basic agricultural commodities for domestic
consumption. Any surplus may be impounded for
future use or for export at world competitive
prices.
The commodities on which all price levels
ultimately tend are the indispensable, non-
perishable raw food and clothing crops -
cotton, wool, corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye,
hay and rice. With prices of these commodities
set at parity levels with the prices of industrial
commodities and the American market reserved for
our producers, our country will rise out of its
depression and business will ascend to levels of
prosperity heretofore undreamed of.
"A man receives two ends from his mother.
He sits on one and thinks with the other.
All the achievement of which he can boast
Depends on which end he uses the most. If
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It is a self evident fact that our business
and government leaders have been using the wrong
end for the past ten years while industry,
agriculture, trade and commerce have suffered the
losses of billions of dollars.
It is time to make the change, admit the
mistakes of the past, turn over a new leaf and
start to use the right end.
Strange as such a paradox may seem, we live
in a glorious land of plenty, where men, money
and materials abound and yet, we have starvation,
suffering and disease from malnutrition. We are
lacking in the brains and intelligence to put
men, money and materials together to solve our
economic problems.
There are those who would solve it by
giving away $200 every month to the aged or $30
every Thursday. Some would try the "Ham and Egg"
method. All are eager to correct the improper
distribution of wealth.
Such schemes will be forgotten when real
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prosperity comes again, when our people see the
light of a new day and make that use of their
God given resources which will produce a
National Income suitable to the needs and re-
quirements of all our people.
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Pres Study
October 27, 1939
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My dear Mr. de Cordova:
Your friendly letter has been received
by the President and he thanks you very much
indeed for the copy of your book "The With and
Humor of the 70's". He deeply appreciates your
friendly thought in sending him the book as well
as the article.
In accordance with your request, the
President has had pleasure in signing a photograph
for you and it is being forwarded under separate
cover.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
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Lincoln,
Massachusetts.
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November 17, 1939
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My dear Mr. Dominguezs
Permit me, in the absence of the
President, to acknowledge receipt of your letter
of November seventh, which will be brought to
his attention upon his return to the city.
Meanwhile, I want to assure you that he will
appreciate the friendly thought which prompted
you to send him the copy of your book "Los
Norbeamericanos son asi".
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Jose Ambrosio Dominguez, Esq.,
P. O, Box 1181,
Mayaguez,
Puerto Rico.
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José Ambrosio Dominguez.
Author.
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JOSE AMBROSIO DOMINGUEZ
11-17-39
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A.B., PH. G., C.P. A.
AUTOR
MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO.
November the 7th, 1939.
The Hon. Mr Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
President of the United States of America.
The White House.
Washington.- D.C.
My dear Mr President:
The mail of this week is taking to your goodself
a copy of my latest book, intitled "Los Norteamericanos son
asi:" (North Americans Are Thus), with my personal compliments
to our President. The book is written in Spanish, but there
goes with it a copy of a "synopsis" of same which I wrote in
English SO that English speaking readers be able to know the
topics commented on by me in every Chapter of the Spanish
edition.
This book I wrote aiming to create a closer and
better understanding between American citizens from the North
and American citizens from Puerto Rico; it is also a book
written to do justice to the continental people of our nation
and,more than anything else, to inform and explain to my fellow-
citizens of this island, who are unable to speak English or
never had a chance to visit the continental States, how you,
continental citizens behave in life, how you feel towards
humanity, and what your ideology is in general.
Although I consider the magnitude of the big burden
that Your Excelency has on your shoulders at this difficult
moment, I trust that you may be able to read afew lines of
the "synopsis" of my book.
It will be a great honor that
you would kindly do to
Your most obedient servant,
José Ambrosio Dominguez.
Author.-
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Lincoln, Massachusetts
November 4th, 1939.
My dear Miss LeHand:
I hope my photograph was duly delivered at Hyde Park. It
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would not do to introduce such an ugly subject to Mr. F.D.R. at his
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business place. He might take it for an S.O.S. and induce him to
accept my invitation to come here before Dec. 3 when I expect to
leave for Calif.
Naturally our President takes notice of the evil effects
on our Industries thru the strikes that take place among the Union
laborers.
Let me ask him, would it not be wise to ask Congress to
pass a law that any man who struck before labor demands were arbitrated
should be by law debared from reemployment for 3 months.
Cordially,
(Signed) JULIAN de CORDOVA
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My dear Mr. de Cordova:
Permit ne, please, to thank you for your
notes of November fourth and twelfth. It was in-
deed thoughtful of you to send the picture to the
President.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Julian de Cordova, Esq.,
Lincoln,
Massachusetts.
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KING, Dr. George S.,
Bay Shore, Long Island, New York
9-20-39
Wrote to Miss LeHand asking that she attempt to interest the President in the
case of Frank Thomas who was discharged from the Marine Corps as disabled Feb. 15, 1935
and who wants to re-enlist. Said at time of the man's discharge he was First Sergeant.
Dr. King said he does not know and can not find out from his papers the nature of his
trouble, which caused his discharge. The case was classified as Psychosis Unclassified
which, the Doctor says, may mean anything or nothing, and whatever the condition causing
the disability at the time of his discharge, he has completely recovered. --- Capt.
Callaghan advised Miss LeHand on Sept. 27 re status of Thomas' case and why he cannot
be considered for re-enlistment. He referred to matter of increasing his small pension
and suggested the introduction of a private relief bill at the next regular session of
Congress. -- Miss LeHand wrote to Sergeant Thomas, Oct. 5 advising him re his case
and saying she has written to a friend on Long Island asking him if he can find some
work for him. -- Miss LeHand wrote to Mr. Almon G. Rasquin, Oct. 5, 1939 re Sergeant
Thomas and asking if he can find for him.
SEE 3801
Letter to Miss LeHand from Almon G. Rasquin dated 11-24-39, regarding Mr. Frank
Thomas, and giving information concerning him. Offers to send the President some
game ducks.
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JOHN NAPIER DYER
MCKENNEY FARMS
VINCENNES, INDIANA
October 14, 1939
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Dear Mr. President:
I have declined the defeatist
attitude and have joined with you tirelessly in the
work of advancing to a better ordered economic life.
To that end I submit for your
information a little booklet entitled The Peril of
Peasantry, being a treatise covering the facts re-
lating to the most important problem confronting
you, the solution of the farm problem. Your attempts
to solve it have thus far met with failure.
Success is within your grasp.
It involves recognition of the simple fact that the
farm problem is a price problem and to solve it you
must do for agriculture what every other industry is
able to do for itself. Raise the price of agricultural
products to the profit level and to a parity with the
things which industry produces out of the raw material
products of agriculture.
You may accept the challenge or
dismiss it. Only through your leadership now can a
"bold peasantry" be saved.
Sincerely,
John Napier Dyer
To/ Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt
The White House
Washington, D. C.
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Cummins, Rev. Alexander G.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
12/8/39 (filed)
Sends President a goose and some ducks as a gift.
See P.P.F. 2689
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GRAY, David
Sarasota, Fla.,
Nov. 20, 1939
Writes to Miss LeHand enclosing forthe President a letter from
Karl A. Bickel, of Peripps-Howard Newspapers, dated Nov. 20, re the Latin-Amer-
ican council. Mr. Gray says this memo on the make up and functions of a presi-
dential South American Trade Council may be of some help. Says he's shooting
with Mrs. Honore Palmer and will send some doves as soon as they get some.
Also encloses a letter from Maude (Mrs. Gray) re Great-Grandfather Tonnele's
picture and suggests it be put in the Hyde Park Library. -- On Dec. 7, the
President wrote to Mr. Gray saying they had the doves the other night and they
were perfectly delicious. Thanks for Mr. Bickel's note and says they are work-
ing toward some king of Pan-American Council. Says to tell Maude that there is
no great rush about the portrait of the ancestor who could not have been an
ancestor because he was a Cardinal. Says the Corcoran Art Galleries will keep
it until Tissie gets a chance to talk to Maude.
SEE - P.P.F. 454
P.P.F.
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R.P.F.
Daniels, Jonathan
Raleigh, N. C.
9-D
11/9/39
Writes Mr. Early that his father, Josephus Daniels, inscribed a
copy of his book, TAR HEEL EAITOR, to the President, and through some
error he received this book. Sent it on to the President, but would like
to know if his copy came to the White House by mistake.
See P.P.F. 1020
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November 29, 1939
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My dear Mr. Diamond:
Thank you in the President's behalf
for the picture, which has been received in
his absence. I can assure you that he will
appreciate the friendly thought which prompted
you to send it to him.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Charles Diamond, Esq.,
N. E, Peabody Home,
Newton Center,
Massachusetts.
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N.E. Beabody Home
newton Center, mass,
november 20, 1939
Dear mr. President;
I am writing to thank you for all the
stamps you sent to me. The only thing l
could think of, to show my appreciation
for all the stamps you sent to me was
to make another picture of stamps for you.
l hope you enjoy it as much as I did
making it for you. In closing, I wish you
happy Thanksgivings.
yours sincerely,
Charles Diamond
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n.E. Peabody Home
Newton center, mass.
Sept. 21, 1939
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Dear Mr. President:
I am writing to thank you for
the letter and the stamps you sent
me. I got at least 200 stamps
a goose as
that I didn't have before. This makes
sident 18,
my collection rise to about 4,500, I
just started collecting the stamp blocks
and I have 208 already. I was very
glad to receive them. The duplicates
were passed around to the other boys
who have allections, and they picked out
the ones they didn't have before
I am making something else out of
stamps togive to you and I hope you
will like it. you may not receive it
for awhile because I just started it
this week.
yours Sincerely,
charles Diamond
P.P.F.
Cummins, Rev. Alexander G.
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Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
12/27/39 (filed)
Sends the President some ducks and a goose as a Christmas
gift. Encloses Christmas card. - Ack. by President 12/22/39.
See P.P.F. 2689
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December 22, 1939
My dear Mr. Dallon:
The President appreciates the friendly
spirit which prompted you to send him the necktie
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and the little Christmas Greeting card. He sends
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you his thanks and best wishes for the Holiday
Season.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
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280 West 10th Street,
New York, N. Y.
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PRIVATE SECRETARY
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My dear Mrs. DeRuste:
The President has asked me to thank
you ever so much for those geese which you sent
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With this little note I have pleasure
in conveying to you the President's very best
wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year.
Very sincerely yours,
11, A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Mrs. Hally DeRuste,
Washington,
North Carolina.
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It was very kind of you to send the
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President and his grandchildren those copies
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of your illustrated Christmas story booklet.
Your thought is deeply appreciated by the Presi-
dent and he asks me to send you this little note
of thanks.
Very sincerely yours,
M. A. LeHand
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Reverend Thomas A. Donoghue, S.J.,
St. Aloysius' Rectory,
19 Eye Street N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
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SIMON, Louis A.
Supervising Architect, Procurement Division
Treasury Dept.
Dec. 26, 1939
The President wrote him, thanking him for drawing of the Hyde Park Library and
he said he is going to have it framed and hung not in the Library, but in the
Hill Cottage at Hyde Park. He asked Mr. Simon to thank his associates and
he extended to him and them best wishes for the New Year,
P.P.F.
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December 27, 1939
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My dear Mr. Dallman:
Your letter of December twenty-first
has been received and I was very glad to
prevent the "Ole Kaintucky Stick" made by
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Mother M. Michelleto the President.
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He has requested me to acknowledge
this gift and to thank Mother Michelle,
through you, for her thought of him.
With all best wishes for the New Year,
I am
Very sincerely yours,
STEPHEN EARLY
Secretary to the President
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Mr. V.Y. Daliman,
Illinois State Register,
Springfield, Illinois.
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Enc.
ILLINOIS STATE REGISTER
"FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE CAPITAL CITY"
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS
the
December 21, 1939.
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PERSONAL
Honorable Stephen Early,
Secretary to President Roosevelt,
White House,
Washington, D. C.
Dear friend Early:
One of the sweetest characters in this entire area
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is Mother M. Michelle, a very aged Nun in Ursuline Convent,
Springfield, Illinois. She has been an ardent admirer of
President Roosevelt for many years and offers a daily prayer
for him.
She makes with her own hands a stick candy which she
calls "Ole Kaintucky Stick" because she learned as a girl to
make it when she lived in Kentucky. In the attached envelope is
a sample of this "Ole Kaintucky Stick" which she made especially
for the President and has asked me to send to him, with the
thought that in that way it will actually reach him. Attached
to the candy is a printed "Christ's Sermon on the Mount.'
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, I
remain
Yours
Editor-in-chief. V. very Y. Dallman truly,
VYD:AD
Enc.
springfield JUNIOR COLLEGE
SPRINGFIELD. ILLINOIS
to
Our beloved Prese dent and his
workerful wife 1 a Lovely,
Joyans from Christmastine, 1939,
Mother Mary Michelle
learnent fat the transing
Springfuld in Illinois.
N.B. "Ole stick "+ a shallbark"
from Hickory Hill on Junior Callege by
mother m. smickelle, help heaps.
Catmpus, gather for her lovad ones