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...Senatorial fight, advantage to Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. '24, will be announced by a pealing of joyous bells, while if Governor Curley is pushed to the front by his admirers, the result will be indicated by three cries of "Rhinehart" from the tower...
...route lay through Fall River where the President paid tribute to its native son, his late friend and No. 1 Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. At Fairhaven the President lunched with his mother who had opened the old Delano house for the occasion. From this strictly family party, Governor Curley and other politicians were excluded. There Secret Service men put their foot down, decreed that automobile racing must cease, wired ahead to Boston to call out the National Guard to keep the route clear. At every stop, there were big crowds, mill hands who had demanded and got holidays...
...procession drew into Boston the crowds grew denser and more conclusively enthusiastic. Some 150,000 people jammed Boston Common and vicinity and police reserves and guardsmen were almost powerless. Boss Curley introduced the President who made a speech from his car. A good part of the crowd did not hear him because the amplifiers were not strong enough...
Next day in Connecticut the frenzy of the Massachusetts visit was reproduced. Connecticut's popular and able Governor Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross, instead of being kept at arm's length like Governor Curley, was applauded in every Roosevelt speech beginning before the State Capitol (where eleven women and a boy fainted) and ending at Stamford (where several people were injured in an automobile crash). In each town through which the President motored, the schools were dismissed and a general holiday proclaimed. At New Haven where Yale dormitories were decked with Landon banners but no boos were uttered...
...Curley to elect Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. to the Senate. In a few close States in the West Mr. Lemke may take enough votes away from Franklin Roosevelt to give Alf Landon a chance to carry them...