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...last week. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was re-elected President of the U. S. by the biggest vote in U. S. history. Last week, while local elections popped and fizzled through the land, the President drove to the town hall of Hyde Park to cast his vote on a ballot headed by the candidate for town supervisor. Inquired Miss Alma Van Curan, Democratic chairman of the election board...
...last week had sifted down to Maurice J. Tobin (a member of the Boston School Committee), onetime (1926-29) Republican Mayor Malcolm Ex Nichols and Democratic District Attorney William J. Foley, besides two lesser candidates, one of whom withdrew his name too late to get it off the ballot...
...votes as the Republican candidate, 159,895 votes as the Fusion candidate, and 28,839 as a Progressive. But 482,459 of the votes that gave him his 454,425 plurality came from an organization that has never before appeared on a New York mayoralty ballot, the American Labor Party, which polled more votes than any independent political organization has received in a U. S. municipal election since...
...Party was organized in July 1936 by New York leaders of John L. Lewis' and Major George Berry's nationwide Non-Partisan League who thought that Labor in the State was politically ripe for a full-fledged party of its own. In its first appearance on the ballot, it justified that expectation by polling 300,000 votes for Roosevelt and Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. In its second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo...
...Workers, and Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W. vice president and hero of the Ford "Battle of the Overpass." both placed among the first nine of the 18 councilmanic candidates named for the run-off election (TIME, Oct. 18). Three other U. A. W. candidates earned places on the councilmanic ballot...