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Nebraska. Clear also was the G.O.P. swing in Nebraska: in the Democratic primary Roosevelt (unopposed) got 109,386 votes with some rural returns still untabulated. Republican: Dewey, 99,905; Vandenberg. 72,108. Four years ago the President carried Nebraska by 100,000 majority...
...result: 6-to-1. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace let drop some quiet advice to county AAA agents in the farm areas; everyone understood perfectly. But when the votes were in, Tom Dewey had outrun the President about 4-to-3 throughout rural Illinois...
...Twenty-four times the menu included fried chicken and ice cream, ten times potato salad.) He was presented with: a light fedora (to replace a beloved dark hat he left behind in Franklin, Ind. as the train pulled out without waiting for him); an oil painting (rural landscape in early U. S. calendar style) by Postmaster Maurice Goodwin's sister in Indianapolis; a mule-skinner's cane at Mule Day ceremonies in Columbia, Tenn., a women's club pin and philatelic relics of Pony Express days, and an Indian peace pipe, at St. Joseph, Mo.; a book...
...military planes away to secret fields (frozen lakes). Loyal Norse soldiers, as they fell away from the shores of Oslo Fjord, man aged to blow up Selbergross Dam, main source of the capital's light & power. To join the loyal soldiers in their retreat, down from rural hills and valleys came farmers, woodsmen, householders, carrying rifles they had learned to shoot during the brief Army training which every Norseman receives. They were Norway's Minute Men and suddenly...
...Rural community service, Mitchell; crime prevention and recreation, John A. Perkins, Boston Juvenile Court, and W. Duncan Russell, executive secretary of the Boston Community Service; and the elected official, Maurice J. Tobin, Mayor of Boston...