Lot 32
Roosevelt, Franklin D. - TLS as Governor of New York, Naming a Future Embezzler (1882-1945) 32nd President of the United States (193-45). Typed letter signed "Franklin D. Roosevelt" as Governor of New York, one page, on official letterhead, Albany, Dec. 28, 1931. To Stanley Prenosil of Wall Street, thanking him for sending Richard Whitney's speech "On Short Selling." Lightly toned, else fine. With an engraving of FDR. Seventy years before Bernie Madoff, there was Whitney, a financier who was president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1930 to 1935. He was convicted of embezzlement in 1938 and sent up the (Hudson) river to Sing Sing prison. This letter is accompanied by a 1986 invoice from the late Robert F. Batchelder. Estimate Value $300 - UP
The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection.
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