PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANCE
New York, July 88. A Californian shipyard worker who needed working clothes sent a telegram to President Roosevelt, reading: ‘Need overalls badly. lam slightly oversize. Am very busy building ships, and don’t wish to become a Californian Mahatma Gandhi. Please send me priority for cloth, and set a price ceiling for pants. Rush the pants, urgent.” The authorities arranged for working clothes to be sent, whereupon the worker telegraphed his thanks. He said: “This is the only country in which the President would take time off from fighting a mansized war to get one of his supporters a pair of pants.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 10 August 1942, Page 3
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