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...really think (maybe I'm a narrow-minded Democrat) that we the people of the United States have made a fine selection in re-electing President Roosevelt for a third term...
Washington. Upsetting all pre-election odds, Seattle's Arthur Langlie, businessman and political amateur, beat out Democrat Clarence Dill, ex-Senator, by a meagre 8,885 votes as the last absentee ballot was tallied...
...Massachusetts there was still recount talk, although last figures gave Governor Saltonstall 9,000 votes over Democrat Paul A. Dever...
Thaddeus F. B. Wasielewski of Milwaukee, Democrat, 35, 6 ft. 2, 204 lb., won over loudmouthed, rancorous, cankerous Representative John C. Schafer. (Even Republican colleagues used to whistle and hum while Schafer was making one of his splenetic speeches.) "I feel I ought to pinch myself," said young Wasielewski last week...
Thomas H. Eliot of Cambridge, Democrat, 33, replaced baggy, antique Republican Robert Luce, chief of Luce's Press Clipping Bureau. Eliot, handsome, dark, wavy-haired, erudite as his grandfather's Five-Foot-Shelf, once rowed for Harvard, was a Boston Globe reporter, still likes to write Letters To The Editor. Eliot co-authored the present Social Security Act, was New England Wage-Hour Administrator when he decided to run. He and his wife made a house-to-house campaign...