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...Idaho, Democrats swept everything before them. Franklin Roosevelt beat Alf Landon by nearly 2-to-1; Democrat Barzilla W. Clark swept into the Governorship; to both seats in the House of Representatives Democrats were returned. Only exception was Governor C. Ben Ross, best campaigner on the State Democratic ticket, who ran against William E. Borah for the Senate. Republican Borah -who did not mention Alfred M. Landon in the entire campaign-polled upwards of 125,000 votes, practically the same number as Franklin Roosevelt. Said he afterward: "I anticipate the next six years will be tremendous years."Then he went...
...weeks partly upon the success of M. Blum in persuading Parliament that Mr. Roosevelt is friendly to the French New Deal and has ordered Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to cushion and facilitate the devaluation of the franc (TIME, Oct. 5). Both Paris and Rome had the impression that Alf Landon would have tried to threaten them into resumption of payments on the French and Italian War debts...
Least inclined of all to ''shoot Santa Claus" were the Canadian Government of Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who have been in mortal fear lest Alf Landon in the White House might crimp the Canadian-U.S. Trade Treaty. This treaty has proved one of the most potent forces in spurring Canadian recovery and the New York Times's Ottawa correspondent wired that its rupture would be "a dagger-thrust for the present Canadian Government...
...Boss James Aloysius Farley, to Ireland. National Republican Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, to Manhattan, to worry about an estimated $1,300,000 party deficit. Vice President John Nance Garner, in Uvalde, Tex., stayed put, as did Senator William Edgar Borah, in Boise, Idaho, after narrowly escaping pneumonia. Governor Alf Landon, duckhunting. New Jersey's Senator-elect William Henry Smathers, hunting in Berwick, Pa., barely missed being shot by his secretary. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., to Sea Island Beach, Ga. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to Buenos Aires for the Pan-American Conference. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt...
...than at home, the stockmarket shot up in the heaviest trading since last February. Day after elections, the Dow-Jones industrial stock average climbed nearly 4 points, best day's gain since 1933. Public utility stocks, which had been widely touted as the best method of batting on Alf Landon, declined automatically. Next day, however, while trading on the New York stock exchange swelled to 3,600,000 shares, even the utilities perked up. Day after that the stockmarket paused for breath, having set a new high for Recovery in the third broadest day's trading...