1932 Election

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.