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FDR Named Greatest Influencer of the Century in Editors Poll
In a United Press poll of American newspaper and radio editors Franklin D. Roosevelt topped the list of 10 personalities most affecting the century. Adolf Hitler ranked second, followed by Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Henry Ford, Lenin, the Wright brothers, Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin, and Louis Pasteur.
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