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...Martin Jr.: "Willkie and McNary will receive a minimum of 324 electoral votes ... the Republicans will capture at least 60 additional seats in the House. . . ." Pathfinder Poll (owner: Emil Hurja): "Willkie victory with 353 electoral votes ... he may get as many as 385. . . ." Joseph Dunninger (spiritualist investigator) : "Thomas Jefferson thinks Roosevelt is as good as in. McKinley says it's Willkie." Arthur Sears Henning (Chicago Tribune): "For Willkie, 280; for Roosevelt, 182; doubtful, 69." Wall Poll: "Roosevelt will win the popular vote, but . . . Willkie may win a majority in the electoral college." Senator George W. Norris: "If President Roosevelt...
...forebodings of Washington, Jefferson and Jackson are fulfilled and justified...
...economic system. At stake is the third term and the economic policies of the New Deal; to The Christian Century they are inextricably linked. "The traditional barrier against more than two terms for any President reflects the instinctive opposition of American democracy to fascism." Though Jefferson did not know the word "fascism," he knew absolutism; protection against it in U. S. democracy depended on the patriotic honor of democratic leaders...
...Albemarle County, Va.-"the world's one real county-in all the spiritual significance of that word"-where he studied at the University of Virginia, for a time was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. A skillful writer of fastidious pastoral verse, Lee has been thinking about Thomas Jefferson for so long that some of that Virginia gentleman's democratic magnanimity has finally come to roost in his poems...
...this magnanimity that elevates The Tomb of Thomas Jefferson above the run of books by the many minor poets who can write Frosty or Horatian lyrics as well as Lee. Now & then, in his severely chaste magazine verse, a reader can hear a rumble that means business, as when he writes of the obelisk that marks Jefferson's grave...