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Stop Throwing Pop Bottles at the Umpire!
Letters to President Roosevelt Concerning the Court Packing Proposal
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Hon. F.D. Roosevelt,
President of the United States.
Washington, D.C.
March 5, 1937

Honorable Sir,

Your March 4th speech via the radio gave additional proof that you are proceeding in accordance with your past conduct and acts, as expressed by the people's votes.

Their votes electing you for another term show their positive approval of what you did during your first term-also their explicit desire that you continue with the re-organization of our government-modernizing our governmental form in conformity with their concepts. Was not their vote quite close to a demand that you do all things necessary to change old laws, customs and conduct, and have enacted new laws fitting modern conditions, practices customs, curbing the Financier-Industrialists' power and expanding, advancing the power, lifting the mal-conditions from the lives of the masses?

The workingmen are 100 percent with you and approve of your Judicial Actions.

Senator Webster, in reply to Senator Haynes (sic), said the American people have the inalienable right to change their form of government when and in the way they see fit. So the people have, thru their ballot, definitely REVOLTED.

The American, people KNOW they are in a wilderness. They think, talk, feel, and trust you to lead them out. Not in modern decades, or since Lincoln, have the masses so felt for a President, personally and as a true LEADER.

I am your faithful advocate.

W-- H--
Oakley, California



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