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C.L. Dukes, representative of the British Trades Union Congress, speaks at the huge Socialist rally, Nov. 3, 1932 in Madison Square Garden, New York....

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, at right, is greeted by Owen D. Young shortly after the governor's arrival at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York...

Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champion, speaks on behalf of Gov. Roosevelt's candidacy for president, at a Democratic rally in the Chicago St...

Novelist Pearl S. Buck is shown at a luncheon in her honor on Nov. 1, 1932 in New York. Buck, a graduate of an American university, lives in China. F...

Pres. Herbert Hoover is shown leaving Madison Square Garden, Oct. 31, 1932 in New York City, after delivering his major campaign address before a crow...

Edith Roosevelt, widow of former Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, makes her introductory address in favor of the president incumbent, Pres. Herbert Hoover, d...

First lady Lou Henry Hoover, left, and former first lady Edith Roosevelt, widow of the late Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, leave Madison Square Garden, Oct...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt acknowledging the cheers of 12,000 on Oct. 31, 1932 in the Boston Arena, Massachusetts. At the left is Mayor Jam...

This is a general view of the huge crowd that jammed New York's Madison Square Garden, Oct. 31, 1932, to hear Pres. Hoover in his campaign address mar...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt acknowledging the cheers of 18,000 on Oct. 31, 1932 in the Boston Arena, Boston, Massachusetts. At the left is M...

Gov. Joseph Ely of Massachusetts, left, candidate for re-election, and Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, stop for a hot dog on the Mohawk Trail...

President Herbert Hoover waves as thousands cheer in Indianapolis during a parade in his honor, Oct. 28, 1932. His wife Lou Hoover sits beside him....

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York is greeted by Vermont Gov. Joseph B. Ely on the Vermont-Massachusetts state line, Oct. 29, 1932, when the Democ...

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York is shown in his car as he starts out for his campaign speaking tour of the New England states, Oct. 29, 1932....

President Herbert Hoover and Sen. James E. Watson (R-Ind.) as the president arrived in Rushville, Ind., Oct. 28, 1932 to make a campaign speech. (AP...

Francis J. Hunter, foreman at the General Post Office in New York, is shown as he puts the first batch of mail in the new pneumatic tube couriers, Oct...

Governor Albert C. Ritchie, center, of Maryland posing with New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt and Speaker John Nance Garner, the Democratic presid...

Democratic presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt is greeted by Georgia farmers while en route to Warm Springs, Ga., Oct. 24, 1932. (AP Photo)

School children from Atlanta, Ga., present New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt with a good luck piece, an ancient horseshoe, when his car passed by th...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt talked informally to his friends at his

President Herbert Hoover acknowledges a crowd of 18,000 at the Olympic Arena in Detroit, Mich., Oct. 23, 1932, as he is given an ovation before delive...

President Herbert Hoover, with auto maker Henry Ford, is shown as he appeared on the stage of the Olympic Arena in Detroit, Mich., Oct. 22, 1932. Fro...

New York Governor and Democratic presidential candidate chats with little Mary Frances Jasper in Warm Springs, Ga., Oct. 23, 1932. (AP Photo)

Lincoln's Tomb at Springfield, Illinois is shown, as Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York visited during his campaign tour, Oct. 21, 1932. He is sh...

Coach Jimmy Crowley, center of the Michigan State Eleven, talks things over with players Abe Eliowitz, right, the Spartans' star kicker and Bob Monnet...

Lincoln Ellsworth, veteran explorer, and Bernt Balchen, right, noted aviator, shown beside the new monoplane in which they will make a 2,900-mile flig...

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York delivers his campaign address at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Penn., Oct. 19, 1932. The presidential candidate de...

General view of New York Governor Roosevelt addressing a crowd estimated at 10,000 people on Oct. 19, 1932 at Wheeling, West Virginia. Roosevelt is...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses a crowd estimated at 10,000 at the fairgrounds in Wheeling, W.V., Oct. 19, 1932. He said his pleasure a...

New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt declared himself on the bonus question at Forbes Field on Oct. 19, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thousa...

This is a general view at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Penn., Oct. 19, 1932, as New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared himself on the bonus quest...

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in automobile, is cheered by residents of Rochester, N.Y., Oct. 18, 1932, as he is driven in an open car behind a band to...

New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, shown in automobile, is cheered by residents on October 18, 1932 in Rochester, N.Y. He was driven in the op...

A crowd greets Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, seen waving from back of train, in Syracuse, N.Y., Oct. 18, 1932, where he made a short stop while en route...

Opera star Maria Jeritza is shown aboard the liner Bremen on her arrival in New York, Oct. 17, 1932. After a short stay in New York she will leave fo...

Flaming youth will be depicted on the screen in the from of these two tots, whose respective parents have signed contracts for them to appear in a ser...

Violinist Jascha Heifetz is shown with a violin made of 2,750 match sticks, a souvenir he picked up while in Cape Town, South Africa, Oct. 8, 1932, in...

President Hubert Hoover greeting General John Ross Delafield, Commander-in-Chief of the Military order of the World War I, when delegates to the conv...

Spanish dancer Vicente Escudero, center, is shown aboard the S.S. Aquitania in New York as he and his dancing partners arrived, Oct. 7, 1932. (AP Pho...

Sen. Robert F. Wagner calls the Democratic City Convention to order in Madison Square Garden in New York, Oct. 6, 1932. The party will name its candi...

New York politician Al Smith, center, shakes hands with his rival and fellow Democrat Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 4, 1932, in Convention Hall in...

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, second from left, congratulates Lieut. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, on receiving the Democratic nomination for the governorship...

Two grandmothers campaign for the re-election of Pres. Herbert Hoover by taking off from Floyd Bennett Field in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Oct....

Making his final appearance in his western campaign tour, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt the democratic standard bearer, is shown with the his party j...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt shaking hands with a synthetic symbol of his party - the donkey - as he sits beside Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago o...

Virginia Van Wie of Chicago is shown with her trophy after she defeated Glenna Collett Vare of Philadelphia in 36-hole final of Women's National Golf...

Roscue Conklin Simmons, of Chicago, spokesman for a group of more than 150 African-Americans from a score of states, is shown pledging fidelity to Pre...

Artist Norman Rockwell with his wife Mary Barstow Rockwell and their son, Jerry, are seen as they returned to the U.S. on board S.S, Berengaria, Sept....

Eleven-year -old master violinist, Ruggiero Ricci of San Francisco, Calif., is shown, Sept. 28, 1932, in Berlin. Ricci's concert in Berlin was well re...

Speaker John N. Garner, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, right, and John H. McCooey, Brooklyn Democratic leader, photographed on September 27,...