1936 Madison Square Garden speech 1936 Madison Square Garden speech The 1936 Madison Square Garden speech was a speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 31, 1936, three days before that year's presidential election. In the speech, Roosevelt pledged to continue the New Deal and criticized those who, in his view, were putting personal gain and politics over national economic recovery from the Great Depression. The speech was Roosevelt's last campaign speech before the election. Roosevelt had to wait around 15 minutes for the enthusiastic crowd at Madison Square Garden to calm down before commencing his speech. Most of the speech outlined
Madison Square Theatre management of Walter N. Lawrence until Eno's descendents demolished the building and the Fifth Avenue Hotel in 1908. By that time the "Theater District" had moved uptown to the Times Square area around 42nd Street. In its forty years of operation some 250 plays were produced at the Madison Square Theatre. Following are productions that ran at least six weeks, noting runs of 100 or more performances. Daly Era (1869-1873) Mackaye and Mallory Eras (1879-1885) Palmer Era (1885-1891) Hoyt-McKee-Lawrence Era (1894-1908) Madison Square Theatre The Madison Square Theatre was a Broadway theatre in Manhattan, on the south side of 24th