A CRIPPLE
(A. and N.Z. Cables.)
FRANK LIN ROOSEVELT WHO MAY YET LEAD U.S.A.
NEW YORK, Saturday. The next President of the United States of America may be a cripple — the leader of nearly 123,000,000 people. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of the State of New York — chosen recently as the Democratic candidate to
oppose Herbert Hoover (Republican) in the forthcoming Presidential election — was ci'ippled by infantile paralysis in the epidemic which swept America in 1921, and he still walks with the help of a crutch and a walk-ing-stick. A year ago, when Roosevelt, aged only 48, was recognised as the logical Democratic nominee, political rivals launehed a whispering campaign, drawing attention to his infirmity. Eventually the medical experts made their exacting and momentous examination of Franklin Roosevelt. They reported: "We have to-day earefully examined Governor Roosevelt. We believe that his health and powers of endurance are such as to allow him to meet any demand of private and public life." Perhaps Mrs Roosevelt more aptly replied to the wretehed and false rumours. She said: "If the paralysis couldn't kill him, the Presidency won't."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 285, 27 July 1932, Page 5
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183A CRIPPLE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 285, 27 July 1932, Page 5
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