Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Many a pollster, politico, politico-ed last week looked long into a crystal globe, previewed the results of the Presidential election. Some prognostications: Edward J. Flynn: "Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . with a minimum of 427 electoral votes. . . . We allow [Willkie] a maximum of nine States - an aggregate of 58 votes." Joseph W. Martin Jr.: "Willkie and McNary will receive a minimum of 324 electoral votes ... the Republicans will capture at least 60 additional seats in the House. . . ." Pathfinder Poll (owner: Emil Hurja): "Willkie victory with 353 electoral votes ... he may get as many as 385. . . ." Joseph Dunninger (spiritualist investigator) : "Thomas Jefferson...
...national record was held by a boy laborer in an East Coast town who admitted 63 separate thefts. Police doubled anti-looting squads sent nightly to prowl in freshly bombed districts; magistrates doubled penalties, sometimes gave the twelvemonth maximum. More looters were held over for the Old Bailey, where sentences could be as high as death or imprisonment for life...
Neither side in the European war has the slightest doubt but what the action of the American electorate will result in maximum United States aid to Britain against the Axis powers. The effect upon the morale of the warring peoples is certain to be strong...
Belligerent Canada has passed a conscription act, but compared to that of the United States, it reads like an excursion ad. Providing for only 30 days of training for each conscript, it calls for about 30,000 men per month, and aims at a maximum of 300,000 trained men. The Conservative Party scoffs at the shortness of the training period, and would extend it to four months! But the Army feels that the present lack of equipment makes this impractical...
...petty strings pulled by ward politicians are tied into a strong web around the city council. Further, the dictatorship of the 51 per cent is supplanted by a system of proportional representation, under which each party receives a number of representatives proportional to its votes. Thus a maximum of efficiency in the executive and a maximum of democracy in the legislature are attained...