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...people took time out to elect a President. Franklin Roosevelt's claim as Man of the Year was mainly that he won a fourth term. But the President had already broken the precedent with his third term. And this time he won through by the narrowest margin of any election since...
...Crimson met its first formidable rival in W.P.I. but came out a 13 to 0 victor, thanks to superlative line play. Although a 5 to 1 margin was piled up in ground gaining, the backfield missed the speed of the ineligible Jenkins and injured Schultz...
Detroit. Working like beavers, P.A.C. added 100,000 to the registration rolls. Because of this, Michigan, which went Republican in 1940, was swung to Roosevelt by a narrow margin...
Missouri. P.A.C.'s vote in St. Louis was the margin that put a state (given by most pollsters to Dewey) into the Roosevelt column...
Result: in Connecticut's Fourth District she probably piled up a bigger vote than any previous candidate of any party. The total vote for Congress was 204,507. Her winning margin was narrow-2,013. A freshman Congresswoman had passed over to the old campaigner's ranks...