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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Washington's Stephen Fowler Chadwick, 46. Last week Campaigner Chadwick ably carried the ball both for himself and for Wendell Willkie (who mistakenly said "Phil" for "Steve" last month). His opponent: 49-year-old Congressman Monrad C. Wallgren, a retail jeweler, who has Washington's big Scandinavian vote in his pocket...
Then John Lewis shot his last bolt. Said he: "President Roosevelt will not be re-elected for the third term unless he has the overwhelming support of ... labor. If he is, therefore, re-elected ... I will accept the result as a vote of no confidence, and will retire as president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at its convention in November...
...George Gallup (Institute of Public Opinion) last week found a ½% increase in Willkie's popular vote (to 45.5%), an increase of four in electoral votes (to 121), 7% of the voters still undecided. But ten key Roosevelt States were well within the poll's 4% margin of error, and the trend to Willkie had not been stopped. Preparing for the worst, Gallup confessed: ". . . There are . . . factors . . . which cannot be measured by scientific methods...
Representative Luce stands to the extreme Right of the Republican Party. He has consistently opposed every reform measure passed in the last eight years,--reforms which his own party is endorsing in the present campaign. His vote was recorded against the A.A.A., against the Wagner Labor Act, against the Social Security Act. Of the federal legislation to ameliorate the acute problem of inadequate housing for one-third of the nation, all he had to say was that "God made these people unfit to live in better dwellings." Here is a man who has closed his eyes to every evil...
...vote of the Business School Faculty, which was not recorded in Friday's count, had much to do with the maintaining of W.W.'s majority, as it was 56 for Willkie and two for the former CRIMSON president. Belated Freshman ballots contributed to Roosevelt strength, however...