Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Collection of ten letters consisting of nine identical form letters, all signed “Franklin D. Roosevelt,” all one page, 7.25 x 10.25, two dated January 1926, all on Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland letterhead. Letters of introduction read, in part: “I want to ask that you give personally five or ten minutes of your time to Mr. Dwight L. Hoopingarner who will see you on my behalf. Mr. Hoopingarner is associated with me as the Executive of the American Construction Council which Secretary Hoover and I organized in 1922 and which, as you may recall, I have been serving as President since that time. I am sure you will agree that the idea back of this movement, dealing as it does with the economic problems of the construction industry in its largest sense and their relation to the permanent prosperity of the nation, is one of the biggest conceptions ever inaugurated in modern industry and should, with the safeguards that are provided for its conduct, command the hearty support of forward looking business men.” Seven of the letters have the original mailing envelope stapled to the reverse. Last letter is a brief TLS, signed “FDR,” dated April 19, 1926, to Hoopingarner forwarding him the letters. In fine condition, with some scattered light toning, a bit heavier to final letters, and aforementioned staples. The American Construction Council was an unsuccessful attempt at self-regulation by the construction industry through the establishment of a construction cartel with government support. Franklin D. Roosevelt helped Herbert Hoover found it in May 1922 and served as its president in 1924. The Council did not survive the Great Depression.
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