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...unhappy (for this newspaper) returns of the next day showed that, while the town had given Landon 32 votes and Roosevelt 12 in the straw, which roughly tallied with the town's professed political inclination, the legal vote on the dawn of election morning showed 26 votes for Landon, 19 for Roosevelt...
...drizzly dawn of the morning after Election, weary brokers in a dozen Manhattan brokerage offices snapped off their radios, wastebasketed their sunflower buttons and stalked out for breakfast. They had opened their offices early in the hope that some alert customers, on the basis of election returns, would want to buy or sell on the London Stock Exchange when that market opened at 5 a.m. E. S. T. Their hope for London orders proved almost as barren as their hope for a Landon victory...
Today, at the end of the post-war era, these first pleasant dreams of permanent peace have been shattered in the chill dawn of reality. For with Spain in flames and the rest of Europe an armed camp, the ideals for which America fought have been dashed to the ground, and the question in men's minds is not of celebration of conquest, but of keeping out of another catastrophe...
...eighty-five year old man in Lawrence who has voted Republican since the Civil War has come out for Landon. For the past twenty years the rotogravures have had cheery pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Smith out in front of the polling booth at crack of dawn, Al saying, "Here's one straight Democratic ticket!" Well, he won't have that line this year, but the photographers can not fail to come through. At his side will be Mrs. Smith, wearing a corsage of orchids. She's had those same orchids every election day since her husband...
...surprisingly amiable dawn. The sunny and warm, outdoors a few birds voices, up and bathe and into the Dining Hall just in time for breakfast. Back in the Attic and the papers all read, the Vagabond picks up his Foerster. John Smith, Wm. Bradford, roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Samuel Sewall, Benjamin Franklin. John Dickinson, Thomas Paine...