Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Youngstown. No Willkie buttons showed along the way, except a furtive few in downtown Pittsburgh; no jeers were heard, save for one plaintive "Boo, Roosevelt"; one group of twelve-year-old boys chanted, "We want Willkie." It was the day for the masses to shout, and they knew it: under the bunting of Mahoning Avenue in Youngstown, swarming in a cheering, yelling horde on Federal Street, breaking through police lines to the car in which the President and Steelmaker Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, were riding.* Democrats had no success in the steel country when Franklin Roosevelt campaigned...
This was not so large a Roosevelt majority as indicated by the Gallup Poll, but was probably a reasonable estimate, considering that Dr. Gallup himself pointed out last week that his poll indicated that Willkie's strength, except in the South, was considerably greater than Landon's had been four years...
...solve the relief problem was to direct into other channels $5,000,000,000 annually-spent in the U. S. for liquor. Nominated for President was goateed Roger Ward Babson, Wellesley Hills (Mass.) statistician, who forlorn-hopefully declared: "I have nothing to offer the American people except the privilege of sacrificing themselves for the common good. . . ." For Vice President: Edgar Vaughn Moorman, wealthy Illinois feed...
...holders of alumni club scholarships are picked by the Harvard Clubs throughout the country with no help from the Dean's Office except that the alumni use the same statistics on their candidates that are filed with the University...
Army was outclassed last week so Harvard scouts couldn't tell much about its offense except that it was fine until it reached the line of scrimmage. This same Army team, however, trimmed Columbia in a practice tilt and has a real trio of triple-threat backs. The Crimson spent a full hour yesterday learning what to expect from Jere Maupin, Hank Mazur, and John Hatch...