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Knockabout. Smallest (6 ft., 1 ½ in.) of five sons of a Finnish miner in Crystal Falls, Mich., Emil Hurja had left home at 16, hoboed his way West. He had sampled his luck in Butte, Mont., Yakima, Wash., Fairbanks, Alaska and Seattle, worked as a grocer's delivery boy, a printer's devil, got a night post-office job while he went to school by day, studied at the University of Washington, newshawked in Alaska's mining camps. After the Oscar II interlude he went to Washington, became secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska...
Sixth Sense. Emil Hurja seemed to possess a sixth sense for predicting the regional outcomes of the 1932 election. His only notable error that year was in estimating that Roosevelt would carry Pennsylvania. In most other states his estimates of Democratic majorities were within 2,000 to 10,000 of the final results. In the eight Rocky Mountain States his forecasts were in error by an average of only 564 votes per state. When the votes were counted at the polls, he became an important man in Democratic politics. He had proved that he could count elections before they were...
Outclassed finally is the Republican high command by the Democratic intelligence service, which is 218-lb. Emil Hurja...
Technician. Behind a large desk in Washington's National Press Building sits Emil Hurja, calm, amiable, and utterly unmoved by the tides of politics. He never argues, never raises his voice. His only eloquence is a flat, staccato statement of what he considers to be fact. On the walls of his office hang twelve portraits of Andrew Jackson. The portraits are appropriate, for Emil Hurja went to Washington to apply modern business methods to political patronage. To distribute several hundred thousand jobs where they would do the most good for the Party, he established a model system of "political...
With all this detailed information at his private command, Emil Hurja probably knows better than any man in the country today the answer to the question: "What chance has Roosevelt of being beaten...