Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearied by his candidacy and his Presidency, Franklin Roosevelt at week-end finally went home to Hyde Park to be a private citizen. With him he took three secret forecasts of the Election, one that he made last winter, one that he made last spring, one that he made last month...
...polls waddled 215-lb. Arthur E. ("Turkey") Gehrke to cast his vote for "the winner" so that next day he could with an easy conscience go to bed as usual for the winter. But there was neither sleep nor astonishment in the eyes of election officials at Hyde Park, N. Y. at 11 a. m. when they handed out ballot No. 312 et seq. to Franklin D. Roosevelt & family. In succession the President, his mother, his wife, his daughter, his son-in-law disappeared into the voting machines and quickly did their duty. Franklin Jr., 21 in August, slipped hastily...
Instead of going to Democratic National Headquarters in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, where four years ago he received the congratulations of Al Smith and mobs of supporters, Franklin Roosevelt spent election evening with family and friends at Hyde Park. In the smoking room were installed teletype machines which chattered out bulletins of the election. In the library a long table was laden with sandwiches, pie, doughnuts, coffee, pitchers of new cider pressed that day. In the dining room the table was covered with charts and tables showing the trend of the voting. From room to room wandered intimates...
...midevening, Hyde Park Democrats paraded onto the lawn before the house and Franklin Roosevelt went out on the terrace to greet them. He had carried his district by 336 votes to Landon's 307, but again lost the village as a whole by nearly 200 votes. "From the returns now it looks as though this sweep has carried every single section of the country," laughed the President...
...minutes later arrived one of hundreds of congratulatory telegrams which had deluged Hyde Park that night: THE NATION HAS SPOKEN. EVERY AMERICAN WILL ACCEPT THE VERDICT AND WORK FOR THE COMMON CAUSE OF THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY. THAT IS THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY. YOU HAVE MY SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS...