A political ally of New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt , in March 1931 , Jesse Straus funded a poll of the delegates to the 1928 Democratic Convention to assess Roosevelt 's chances in the race for the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination . Straus was president of his family 's department store in the 1930s until Roosevelt appointed him Chairman of the state 's Temporary Emergency Relief Administration ( TERA ) , which provided unemployment assistance to ten percent of New York 's families , in 1931
1928 Democratic Convention
1928 Democratic National Convention
Jesse I. Straus