Official Acts

So busy last week was Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Democratic Nominee (see p. 13) that he performed only two conspicuous official acts as President:

P:He donned a topper and traveled by ferry to little Bedloe Island in New York Harbor. There he joined President Albert Lebrun of France, who spoke by radio from Paris, in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty (see p. 27). Said the President, repeating Grover Cleveland's pledge in dedicating the statue: "We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected." Said Herbert Hoover later in Denver: "Two days ago [Mr. Roosevelt] rededicated the Statue of Liberty in New York. She has been the Forgotten Woman."

P:He exercised his power under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 18, passed by the 69th Congress in 1926, inviting the people of the U. S. to observe Nov. 11 as Armistice Day "with appropriate ceremonies in schools and churches or other suitable places" and thereto he set his hand and caused the great seal of the U. S. to be affixed.

Wearied by his candidacy and his Presidency, Franklin Roosevelt at week-end finally went home to Hyde Park to be a private citizen. With him he took three secret forecasts of the Election, one that he made last winter, one that he made last spring, one that he made last month.

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