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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT T.L.S.

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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT T.L.S.
<b>926. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT</b> (1882 - 1945) Thirty-second President of the United States who instituted the "New Deal" programs and who led the United States through most of World War II. Good content T.L.S. as President on White House letterhead, 1p. 4to., Washington, Nov. 1, 1938 to Dean James M. Landis of the Harvard School of Law. In part: "<i>...[The Emergency Board] report has contributed to the railroad industry an outstanding milestone in the long line of peaceful settlements of wage disputes. I marvel at the skill and speed with which you and the other members of the Board completed the investigation and report. Your task was indeed a strenuous one...intensive hearing...efforts to mediate...[and] the writing of a twenty-five thousand word report...accomplished by untiring efforts such as you gave...</i>". Very good. Roosevelt was committed to railroad labor peace, and during his administration saw the Railroad Retirement Act (1937), the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (1938), and the Transportation Act (1940) all passed by Congress.<b>$400-600</b>