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Many a pollster, politico, politico-ed last week looked long into a crystal globe, previewed the results of the Presidential election. Some prognostications: Edward J. Flynn: "Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . with a minimum of 427 electoral votes. . . . We allow [Willkie] a maximum of nine States - an aggregate of 58 votes." Joseph W. 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...
...winter would not make pretty invading weather. This week Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell, onetime chief of the Imperial General Staff, warned that the invasion might come during the winter-that the Germans had a precedent in Moltke's winter attack on Denmark in 1864. Because a politico-military offensive was shaping up farther south did not mean that an offensive could not be simultaneously launched in the north...
...Franklin Roosevelt looked close to victory in the 1940 election. With the West, South and Border States almost solidly for him, he apparently needed only a brace of Eastern States to coast home. But Franklin Roosevelt was never a chicken counter before hatching time. Apparently he was the only politico in the Democratic Party not suffering from overconfidence. Conversely, Wendell Willkie seemed the only major Republican not suffering from defeatism...
...Wilson's New Freedom, partly incorporated in the New Deal. It is for Roosevelt I, the subject of the first half of the book, that Josephson reserves his more withering disapproval. Irked by T. R.'s nationalism and strong foreign policy, unable to call him either politico or robber baron, Josephson calls him an aristocratic bureaucrat, backs it up by statements of aristocrats at the Habsburg court...
Local Rooseveltites will get the jump on the G.O.P. as far as publicity is concerned, for the initial third term rally, to be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Emerson D, will get a full page spread in Life magazine, according to head Democratic politico John M. London...