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...would pick Governor Roosevelt to run against him. Mr. Roosevelt was his favorite candidate, the one he was told he could most easily beat. All aglow from medicine ball the President sat on the South Lawn of the White House with his fruit & coffee and listened to the second ballot at Chicago. That evening in the Lincoln Study he heard the fourth, final ballot. He had last seen "Frank" Roosevelt during the Governors Conference in Richmond in April. They had shaken hands. The Governor had told him he had made a "very good speech." In Wartime Washington under Woodrow Wilson...
...candidate into primaries where he could win without wounds, steered him clear of contests with Favorite Sons. He had arrived in Chicago with a clear majority of delegates. He had captured all the convention machinery. He had confidently predicted victory for Governor Roosevelt on the first ballot. Yet since dawn that morning three ballots had come & gone at the Stadium and the Roosevelt nomination was unharvested. Jim Farley's plans had been stalled by the stubborn enmity of Alfred Emanuel Smith and a half-dozen Favorite Sons...
...What do you think of the claim of the Roosevelt forces that they'll win on the first ballot...
...majority, 207 short of the two-thirds vote of 770 required to nominate. Yet to be allocated among the candidates were 170 votes from New York and Pennsylvania, where delegations were standing pat to bargain. Roosevelt managers claimed that their candidate would get 691 votes on the first ballot, that the 79 more needed to nominate would come his way from "favorite son" delegates before the roll-call ended. By Democratic tradition Governor Roosevelt should get the nomination eventually if he can show a majority (578) on the first roll-call...
Brilliant but not unblemished, the career of Sir Richard Anderson Squires, Premier of Newfoundland, took a sharp, sensational downward twist last week. By one of the largest Opposition majorities ever piled up in a Dominion election 74% of Newfoundland's ballot casters voted to oust Squires...