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Well known and respected is Joe Martin's skill as a legislator. Republican floor leader in the House since 1939, he whipped a frazzled Minority into a tough Opposition. Washington correspondents last year, in a LIFE poll, picked him ablest Representative in Washington. Not so well known, but indisputable, is his skill as a political mechanic. He knows intimately all the gears, spark plugs, grease cups in the machine. As chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1938, he toured the country, helped get 80 new Republicans elected to the House...
...Dewey's campaign for Governor of New York. Mr. Hanes expressed their sentiments last week in two eruptive sentences: ''Eight years of him already! Put him in another four . . . and our children will have Roosevelts for Presidents too.'' Straws in the Wind. Last week poll statistics showed a teetering balance between Democrat and Republican voters...
Conclusions, drawn on a hairline, depended upon which way hopes lay. Last State by State Gallup poll showed Roosevelt leading in 28 States. Willkie in 20-a loss of four States for Willkie since a poll early in August. Willkie retained a lead in electoral votes...
...States where those votes lie thickest are Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Rhode Island. New Jersey, Wisconsin, Connecticut. Willkie could take cheer from the fact that the last Gallup poll gave him all but one of those States...
...games. Last week, at Chicago's Soldier Field, 85,000 fans gladly paid up to $4.40 a seat to watch the curtain raiser of the 1940 football season: a night game (for charity) between the Green Bay Packers, national professional champions, and a team of College All-Stars, poll-picked from the recent graduates of U. S. college football...