For his devotion to the cause of tolerance in the midst of a “rising tide of hate, slander and oppression,” President Roosevelt today received the Gottheil Medal of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
The medal was presented by Harold Riegelman, New York attorney, “for distinguished service to Jewry” for 1936. Mr. Riegelman, in a presentation statement declared that “your clear, ringing, repeated affirmation of the right of free speech, free mind, free conscience is of far-reaching consequence.”
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