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This week as the nation buried Frank Knox in Arlington Cemetery, almost every public figure but Sewell Avery was being mentioned as his successor. Among them: Under Secretary Forrestal, 52, a Democrat, ex-president of Wall Street's Dillon Read & Co., and now Acting Secretary; Admiral William D. Leahy; Democrats Lyndon Johnson and Charles Edison; Republicans Wendell Willkie, Eric Johnston and Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen...
...independent oilmen in a radio series 'sponsored by Funkhouser's rubber company. Hallanan denounces Funkhouser as a moneybagged interloper trying to buy office, and a party turncoat whose two previous small-time political offices (one as town supervisor of swank, suburban Harrison, N.Y.) were won as a Democrat. R.J., who says he has voted Republican since 1924, explains his registration as a Democrat in 1936 as a regrettable error by one of his employees, who registered...
...over on Election Day, but mentioning neither the Pacific war nor the peace terms. Here Roosevelt wins by 51%-to-49%. But a breakdown by regions shows him leading Dewey only in the Solid South. In terms of an actual election this would mean a Dewey victory, since a Democrat with a useless surplus of Southern votes must get about 52% of the national popular vote in order to win. The figures...
...Anti-Fourth Term slate was headed by Milwaukee's William R. Callahan, a Democrat who has never voted for F.D.R. and who has seethed more or less silently for eleven years while Democratic patronage went to Bob La Follette's Progressives. With the anti-Fourth Term Democratic vote added to the Republican vote, the primary totals stood: for Roosevelt, 97,000; against Roosevelt, 330,000. Political dopesters put Wisconsin down as another state-like Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas-which, in an election held today, would vote Republican no matter what...
...ready to go along. At week's end the six-party junta, without enthusiasm, accepted the King's decision. This week Vittorio Emanuele accepted the resignation of Pietro Badoglio's Royalist Cabinet, ordered the Premier to form a new one with Communist, Socialist, Liberal, Actionist, Christian Democrat and Labor Democrat representatives...