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...grandchildren, was unusually effective. For two days the Presidential special rolled across Grandfather Roosevelt's constituency-until it came to the home States of three Democratic Senators who last spring helped defeat the Roosevelt plan to enlarge the Supreme Court: Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Nebraska's Edward Raymond Burke and Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler. Its first scheduled stop was Cheyenne...
...about 800,000 votes to 1,200,000 by his rivals combined. Had Dr. Copeland won the Republican primary, LaGuardia running under some other label would again have had the advantage of a three-cornered race. Instead Tammany, beaten in the primaries, announced that it would support Democrat Jerry Mahoney, once more consolidating the Democratic vote. Judge Mahoney being a New Dealer, and having won Jewish sympathy two years ago by standing out vigorously against U. S. participation in the Olympic Games at Berlin, Mayor LaGuardia will have only one major issue to fight on this fall: reform v. machine...
Thus with three men in two primaries, and a contest in each, the results were sure to give a test of relative strength. With Jerry Mahoney enjoying the support of Postmaster James A. Farley, and Fiorello LaGuardia, a friend and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, Senator Copeland and Tammany counted on having a monopoly on anti-New Deal votes which might turn up a majority in at least the Republican primary. These were not enough to prevent Dr. Copeland from being badly beaten in both battles...
...York City such a battle usually favors the machine. In last week's primaries approximately five Democratic votes were cast for every Republican vote. Worse still for Mayor LaGuardia's comfort, although Jerry Mahoney polled nearly three votes to two for Copeland in the Democratic primary, LaGuardia himself polled two votes to Copeland's one in the Republican race...
...spite of these evil omens friends of LaGuardia were last week actually confident of his reelection. One reason for their confidence was that a last minute move to write in LaGuardia's name on the Democratic ballot produced no less than 50,000 votes-a bagatelle compared to Mahoney's 400,000 or Copeland's 200,000. but a striking vote of confidence under the circumstances...