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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Typed Letter Signed as New York Governor....
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Typed Letter Signed as New York Governor. July 15, 1929. Albany, New York. One page, 8" x 10.5". State of New York Executive Chamber letterhead. To Daniel W. Blumenthal, New York, New York. FDR writes a letter concerning the City Trust investigations, headed by one of FDR's least favorite persons, Robert Moses. FDR writes: "Dear Mr. Blumenthal:/ I have your letter of July eleventh, which I read with a great deal of interest. I have read the report of Commissioner Moses and intend to give most careful consideration to the recommendations which it contains. Beyond this I intend to make a survey and study on a larger scope of the suggestions he makes for the remedial legislation to the end that by the time the legislature meets I will be able to submit recommendations that will be of a lasting nature, that we may never again experience such conditions as we have recently faced./ I appreciate the tender of support of yourself and associates and wish to assure you that I am always pleased to receive any suggestions or comment you may ever care to bring to my attention./ Sincerely yours,/ Franklin D. Roosevelt". With the usual folds, light type, else very good.Robert Moses was appointed under the Moreland Act by Acting Governor Herbert H. Lehman when FDR was at Warm Springs, Georgia, to head an investigation of banking practices that was a major unfolding scandal at the time. FDR would never have approved the appointment given his animosity towards Moses. The final report issued by Moses is what FDR refers to in his letter to Blumenthal, and interestingly he downplays the report stating that he will survey and study the issue on a larger scope. FDR ended up referring the report issued by Moses without recommendation to the legislature's Joint Committee on Banking and Investment Trusts, and subsequently FDR appointed a special Commission on Revision of the Banking Law, to which, in a sharply pointed snub, he did not name Robert Moses. Robert Moses was a ranking member of the "kitchen cabinet" in the administration of Alfred E. Smith, FDR's predecessor as New York governor.
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2009 November Grand Format Americana Auction #6032 (go to Auction Home page)
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November, 2009
17th-18th
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