1932 Election

Birth control a campaign issue

DETROIT, April 27, 1932 (UP)--Prohibition and birth control were to be raised today in the formal business meeting of the League of Women Voters.

Norris bolts, aids Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, May 5, 1932 (UP)-Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, leader of the western insurgent Republicans, will bolt the party again and support Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for president if Roosevelt is nominated by the Democrats.

Chickasha sees G.O.P. platform same old stuff

By LYLE C. WILSON

CHICKASHA, Okla., June 20, 1932 (UP) -- The barbershop verdict on the Republican national convention is that platform and performance were "the same old stuff."

Hoover concedes to Roosevelt

Hoover concedes to Roosevelt

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 9, 1932 (UP) - President Hoover at 9:34 o'clock tonight conceded the election to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, his Democratic opponent. He telegraphed congratulations to the New Yorker.

Zangara says crowd kept him from killing Roosevelt

MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 16, 1933 (UP) - Giuseppe Zangara, the bricklayer who shot at the president-elect, told this story of his crime, police said:

Roosevelt unhurt, but Chicago mayor's condition critical

By FREDERICK A. STORM, United Press Staff Correspondent

MIAMI, Feb. 16, 1933 (UP) - President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, saved from an assassin's bullets by the heroism of a woman, departed for New York today, leaving behind him, dangerously wounded, his friend, Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago.

Woman's courage foils shots assassin aimed at Roosevelt

Woman's courage foils shots assassin aimed at Roosevelt

MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 16, 1933 (UP) - The courage of one small woman, who pitted her strength against the determination of a crazed gunman, probably saved President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt from injury or death.

263-Year-Old Bible for Roosevelt oath

HYDE PARK, N.Y., Feb. 27, 1933 (UP) - Franklin Delano Roosevelt will take the oath of office on the old tattered Dutch Bible that has been in the possession of his family since 1670, he revealed today.

Strict measures needed to fight Depression, says new President

By RAYMOND CLAPPER, United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 4, 1933 (UP) - Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the United States today with a demand for adequate but sound currency, an excoriation of the "money changers" and a promise that he might have to adopt war-time measures to combat the financial crisis now enveloping the nation.

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