Description. In the 1932 presidential election, Democratic New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt unseated incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide in both the popular vote and ...

The speaker was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was at home in Albany with his friend and advisor Felix Frankfurter, monitoring radio reports of a political disaster unfolding in Herbert Hoover’s ...

It was 1932. Hoover had dispatched the military to break up a camp of World War I veterans who had massed to demand immediate payment of a bonus they had been promised for serving.

Roosevelt felt no better about Hoover. At a White House reception for governors that April, the president cruelly left FDR — the New York governor — standing in a reception line for over an hour.

Plan for afternoon and evening showers and storms. The National Weather Service issued a Flood Watch from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Virginia's primary is here. Seats for Lt. Gov. & attorney general are up ...

After Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the election in 1932 and Herbert Hoover became a lame-duck president, many blamed Hoover for the downturn of the economy that would later spur the New Deal, a ...

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 Hoover mayoral race is now set between its longtime incumbent and the leader of the city’s police department. Frank Brocato, who has served as mayor since ...

Before 1932, Hoover and FDR were on good terms, even though Hoover regarded FDR as a lightweight. So did renowned journalist Walter Lippmann, who wrote scornfully about FDR and his political prospects ...

Talmage Boston: On the anniversary of FDR’s death, Boston examines the legacy of the New Deal and the expanded role of government in American life.

As it happened, Roosevelt as president was no more willing to pay the bonus early than Hoover and Mellon had been. In 1936, Congress overwhelmingly passed a measure to pay the bonus immediately ...