Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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East. Delaware (3), Maine (5), Vermont (3)-all Willkie's. Pennsylvania(36), New Jersey (16), Massachusetts (17), Rhode Island (4),Connecticut (8)-all Roosevelt's now. Doubtful: New York (47), New Hampshire...
Eagle Bridge, N. Y. (pop. 300) nestles on the hard western slope of Vermont's Green Mountains just where they roll over the New York border. There 13 years ago Farmer Thomas Solomon Moses died, left the care of his 180-acre farm entirely to his widow. For frail Anna Mary Robertson Moses, running the farm was pretty hard work. Soon she found she had to rest her back. To occupy her busy fingers, Anna Moses (80) decided to take up painting...
...loudest boo, the harshest catcall Willkie had heard yet-the Gallup poll. From 78 electoral votes Willkie had dropped to 32. Franklin Roosevelt's score had risen from 453 to 499.*Willkie was conceded only six States-North and South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and the ancient stalwarts, Vermont and Maine. Only encouragement: in the big States, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Candidate Willkie had held his own, or nearly so, and was still within striking distance. But to believers in the summary of polls, the disenchantment was profound...
...artistic pasting from Tulane's Green Wave in New Orleans this afternoon. The CRIMSON's exclusive correspondent covering the game, the "Southern Sage," wires that several B. C. stars are stricken with colic and rickets. Tulane 27 Boston College 6 Boston University 21 Norwich 0 Bowdoin 13 Tufts 0 Vermont 6 Northeastern 0 Holy Cross 30 Providence 0 Brown 13 Wesleyan 0 Williams 7 Middlebury 0 Rhode Island 10 Maine 0 Bates 20 American I. C. 0 Michigan 13 California 7 Minnesota 14 Washington 7 Ohio State 21 Pitt 0 U. S. C. 20 Washington State 7 North Carolina...
...Literary Digest mailed a questionnaire to find out whether U. S. citizens preferred Roosevelt or Landon. The answer was Landon, who carried Maine & Vermont. Prominent among those grilled: telephone subscribers. Nobody knows whether telephone subscribers are similarly at odds with the rest of the people in their preferences for radio shows. The radio industry thinks not. It depends for estimates of the popularity of its programs largely upon the Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting, which gathers material for its statistical studies solely by telephone queries. Last week radio bigwigs pored over a C. A. B. semi-annual report which offered...