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Once before, in 1932, the nation had called on him in an emergency, and he had driven to his first inauguration in grey weather, confident and cheery, beside dour Herbert Hoover. Now millions of people the world over, in even greyer weather, looked on the White House as a symbolic lighthouse in the worldwide blackout of democracy...
Actually the base of the Willkie campaign had been broadened so far that some observers thought more might finally be spent on the Willkie campaign than had been forked up for Landon or Hoover. Yet G. O. P. Chairman Martin could honestly insist that the Hatch Act ($3,000,000 limit) was being observed with pharisaic strictness by the National Committee-for outside the National Committee were scores of organizations, uncontrolled and uncontrollable, collecting and spending money for the man they want to win. From coast to coast there were anti-Roosevelt or pro-Willkie organizations, maintaining extensive paid staffs...
Others who figured in the results were: Yardling football captain Brockway, five votes; Yahoodi, Mickey Sullivan, and Mrs. Willkic, three votes each; Herbert Hoover and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, two votes each...
Other third party dark horses included Mickey Sullivan, Tom Harmon, Herbert Hoover, Leverett Saltonstall '14, Langdon P Marvin, Jr. '41, Al Smith, Mrs. Willkie, Adolf Hitler, Margie Hart, Charles A. Lindbergh, and George Washington...
...deliberate; that he had decided to tell the people what these falsities were; that the Democratic National Committee would pay his expenses. The President had eased himself out of the dilemma that always confronts a candidate in office, the dilemma that had embarrassed Wilson and Coolidge, had broken Herbert Hoover's heart: if you campaign while in office, people think you're neglecting your work; if you don't, your opponent mops the floor with...