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President Roosevelt was the favorite Democratic candidate, bagging 61 percent of the votes. Hull got 24 percent, Garner received 4 1/2 percent and the remaining 10 percent of the votes went to McNutt, Wheeler, Jackson, and Farley...
...percent of the Freshmen favor Willkie as the Republican choice, while only 14 percent voted for Dewey, 12 percent for Taft, 7.2 percent for Hoover, and 6.9 percent for Vaudenburg. The remaining 8 percent of the votes were split among Martin, McNary, Knox, Bricker, Landon, and MacNider...
...poll was run in such a way that all voters, no matter what their party, designated their choice for the nominee of both the Republican and the Democratic parties. Then they were asked to designate their preference between the two men they had nominated. 52 percent of the voters voted Democrat; 48 percent favored the Republicans...
Showing an increase in its peak load of 75 percent since 1937, the circulation of Widener Library reached a record peak on April 22 when 1615 books were borrowed by students. Library officials said yesterday. They expect this year's total circulation to be 10 percent larger than last year...
...Library always meets its peak load towards the end of April just before the beginning of reading period. On April 24, 1939, the Library's record day last year, 1232 books were lent out, 30 percent less than the number borrowed on this year's peak...