TLS as president, one page, 7.25 x 9, White House letterhead, April 5, 1932. Letter to the founder and editor of the Bennington Evening Banner, Frank Howe. In full, 'I wish you to know of my warm personal appreciation of your work as State Chairman for Vermont of the Citizen's Reconstruction Organization. The hoarding situation has been fraught with the most serious perils to the financial stability of the country, and thus to the entire economy of the Nation. The campaign of the Organization has turned back this menace, and you who have borne the direct burden of this task deserve the gratitude of the country for a signal service to the whole people. On behalf of the public, as well as myself, I send you this note of thanks.' Howe was the first editor of the Montpelier Daily Record and also founded the Bennington Evening Banner. After he became Speaker of the House in Vermont and was the presidential elector on the republican ticket in 1908. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.
