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...Washington, where people never tire of trying to predict what unpredictable Mr. Roosevelt will do, people predicted: the release of 75 more destroyers, a deal to turn over to England a large proportion of the U. S. merchant marine, an assembly plant to turn out standardized ships for Britain in wholesale quantities, the repeal of the Neutrality Act, the repeal of the Johnson Act (prohibiting loans to govern ments in default on World War I debts). In official circles, outright repeal of the Johnson Act or a scheme for circumventing it was freely prophesied. The raid which gutted Coventry...
...emergency mobilization, the 104,000 members of the Officers Reserve Corps (within the age limits of their grades) had kept up their training by correspondence courses, summer training camps, occasional tours of active duty. When the Army began filling out its regular units with reservists, no professional officer could predict with certainty how well doctors, lawyers, policemen and clerks would function as commanders of field units. Last week General Staff officers at Washington surveyed the Organized Reserves' performance, found it good...
...where our poll might conceivably reflect true public opinion more accurately than the election itself." But he also insists on the limitations of his polls. He steadfastly refuses to make any forecast of electoral votes. The important and proper use of his political surveys is, he insists, not to predict elections but to obtain an over-all view of popular sentiment on public issues...
...ultimate destination will be the Administration building on the Wellesley campus. There the tron-legged victors are to receive their awards from a committee of Wellesleyites. Pre-race forecasts from Dunster hint at a warm reception, and many observers predict a new record for the distance...
...That's a horse of a different color," he replied. "I pick up quite a bit of inside dope in my line, and I predict a photo finish. So long. I've got to go see a man about the north end of a south bound Percheron." Hu Flung Huey's Big Four Roosevelt over Willkie Saltonstall over Dever Harvard over Yale Babson over my dead body