Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come what might on Election Day, the President was relaxed. He told the Shriners: "People ask me how I could find the strength to campaign so hard and for so long. That's easy-I'm out of jail when I'm out campaigning...
...were almost peeping over his shoulder as he put a pencil to his lips and made one mark. As he dropped his vote into a box, a newsman asked him if he had voted the straight Democratic ticket. Said Democrat Truman: "I always follow my own advice . . . I'm the sort that says...
Many other faces were red. The Crossley poll's Archibald M. Crossley had given a final prediction of Dewey's election by 51% (to Truman's 42%). Fifty Washington correspondents, most of them bureau chiefs, had unanimously predicted a Dewey victory in a Newsweek poll. On election night the Chicago Tribune headlined: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. In a pre-election photograph, LIFE had unreservedly captioned Dewey "The next President." TIME was just as wrong as everybody else...
...interest of history, Harvard's Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger* worked a variation on an old sport page diversion. He asked 55 authorities on American history to pick a kind of alltime, all-star list of U.S. Presidents. The results, listed last week in an article in LIFE, were a heartening commentary on the democratic electoral process. The U.S., in the opinion of the experts, had produced six great Presidents and only two downright failures...
...Father of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., author of The Age of Jackson...