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...breakdown in negotiations meant that Cuba's President-elect, Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, must choose between sending back Batista's hagglers or appointing a new mission instructed to accept the U.S. offer. Then he would face the angry sugar-growers...
Pollster George Gallup this week completed his first state-by-state poll. His total score, if the election were held now: Roosevelt, 286 electoral votes; Dewey, 245. (Needed to win: 266.) A further Gallup breakdown showed: 157 "safe" for Roosevelt, 129 leaning toward Roosevelt; 141 "safe" for Dewey, 104 leaning toward Dewey. Five big states were in the doubtful column: Pennsylvania (35), California (25) and Massachusetts (16) credited to Roosevelt; and New York (47) and New Jersey (16) credited to Dewey...
...like Gideon, who slowly learned to read and write, the Convention slowly caught on. By the time it adjourned, it had fashioned a sound basis for a democratic community of whites and Negroes. It had provided for equality at the polls, compulsory education, the breakdown of the plantation system...
...grenade-or was it a Teller mine?-exploded under the table, the explosion tore the pants off everyone present. When Benito Mussolini arrived a short time later, Hitler held up the ragged remnants to show that nothing worse had happened to him. Hitler was verging on a nervous breakdown, terrified of further attempts on his life, had -deserted Berchtesgaden for a heavily guarded Rhineland estate...
...parents of bright boys throughout the world heard with mingled relief and alarm that Son William James (named for his father's great Harvard colleague) had suffered a nervous breakdown...