JF Ptak Science Books
This is quite a flag being flown by Republican interests, waving in a relatively non-existent lunar breeze prior to the 1936 election. That was a lot of discrimination leveled on FDR in that flag, which is particularly disdainful given the successes of the administration in its first term. (Of course FDR would go on to win in the mother of all landslide, beating Alf Landon and Frank Know 523 to 8 in the electoral college). The electoral map has seldom been so monochromatic as in '36, though George McGovern took only a single state in his bid against RMN in '72. Landon took Vermont and Maine, and Maine (Squirrel Island) is where the holder of the copyright on this pamphlet--Frank C. Hughes--was from. Hughes was, um, not a fan of the administration, and seems to have written a number of little pamphlets proclaiming himself as the dire opposition, the ruined associate of democracy, the injured party...a gadfly.
Anyway I guess some of the meaty stuff that could be the cause of some of the stripes on that flag are the occasional favorite of revised opinion and theory nowadays, that FDR messed around with taxes and wages when he shouldn't have, and imposed the tariff that some think pushed the country further/deeper into Depression. Bottom line is that he saved us all.
By the way, that's pretty much the whole pamphlet--there's one more image, but the whole of it was one sheet of paper, folded.
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