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...Pontiac, Mich., young men in dirty overalls began to show Wendell Willkie the strength of Franklin Roosevelt's political muscles. They came out of automotive and machine-tool plants to boo and Bronx-cheer. Pontiac-typically Midwest, a small town with a one-street business district-had just gone to work at 9 a.m. when the Willkie motor caravan passed through, with the bareheaded candidate waving from an open car, cameramen standing smoking in a truck, a score of shiny 1941 model cars stuffed with aides, newsmen and political small fry. Near the railroad tracks, a half-dozen blocks...
Last week the first full-grown, live (but molting) quetzal ever to reach a northern city arrived in Manhattan in charge of its captor, voluble Explorer Victor Wolfgang von Hagen. Its destination: The Bronx for a rest, then St. Louis...
...last week, Democrats had not even bothered to take their coats off. The Third Term was a cinch. The whole thing was just a killer. National Committee Chairman Ed Flynn had decided that he did not even have to leave The Bronx. If anybody wanted him, they knew where to find him. Mr. Roosevelt made a few remarks which he laughingly admitted were "political." The only Democrat who seemed to take it seriously was Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace, who plodded up & down the land making earnest speeches to farmers...
Through San Diego, Santa Ana, Englewood, Long Beach, motored the Willkie caravan, through huge turnouts of cheering people. Here & there high-school children bronx-cheered or shouted "Hooray for Roosevelt!" One or two of them threw tomatoes, one a wild pitch above the grinning candidate's head...
...every veterans' outfit and Minute Men organization in the land open their meetings with it. ... Portland (Ore.) used it for the floral theme of its annual Rose Festival. ... It is played at all Brooklyn Dodgers home games, at the midget auto races at Castle Hill Stadium in The Bronx, at bingo games, and it was a standout feature of the President's birthday balls.... At Sheboygan, Wis., a local ordinance makes it a must at all band concerts along with America, The Stars and Stripes Forever, and The Star-Spangled Banner...