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TIME, like Luce, was alert to the nuances of American power, which, in a way, was the ultimate focus of the magazine's interest. Occasionally, TIME went against the grain of majority opinion, as when Luce, who came to dislike Franklin Roosevelt, pushed Wendell Willkie as the American hope in 1940, or when, after Luce's death in 1967, the magazine seemed to predict the wrong presidential "inevitabilities"--Maine's Edmund Muskie in 1972, say, or Texas' John Connally in '80. As a monitor connected to the nation's political generators, the magazine sometimes misinterpreted the vibrations. In general, however...
While other men in other lands were making 1934 history, the voters of the U.S. took pencil & paper on Nov. 6 and wrote their own ticket for Man of the Year. It was not a new ticket because they had picked Franklin Roosevelt as their Man of 1932 by electing him to the Presidency, but it was a different one. Two years ago a hundred million people looked to this cheerful, charming gentleman to do something in the greatest industrial crisis on record. This year they used their ballots again, not as a desperate hope but as a grateful reward...
...call History many a potent human being scrawled his name the twelvemonth past. But no man, however long his arm, could write his name so big as the name written by the longer arm of mankind. Neither micrometer nor yardstick was necessary to determine that the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was written bigger, blacker, bolder than all the rest...
What made the name of Franklin Roosevelt so big, so black, so bold, was the fact that the wealthiest single nation of the modern world had committed itself as never before to one man in a do-or-die attempt to pull itself out of a deep, dark economic hole...
...dominant figures of the 1930s came to power almost simultaneously: Adolf Hitler on Jan. 30, 1933; Franklin D. Roosevelt 33 days later. It was no coincidence. Each embodied drive and vision--one diabolic, the other democratic--at the very moment their respective countries, and the world, had reached a nadir of economic and social despair...