Word: macallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Record editorial department conducted an office pool in which members guessed the number of electoral votes. Closest and victor was Rewriteman Warren MacAllen who gave Landon only Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. On election night came news that the Knox New Hampshire paper had conceded the State to Roosevelt. Promptly wisecracked Rewriteman-Prognosticator MacAllen: "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." Credit to whom credit is due. Undoubtedly the idea burst to the lips of others; but MacAllen was ahead of Farley...
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