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Publisher Hearst had staked his personal reputation as a prophet on Governor Landon. Far greater was the stake risked and lost by the publishers of the respected old Literary Digest, whose famed straw vote had polled by mail 1,293,669 votes for Alfred Landon, 972,897 for Franklin Roosevelt. In the face of actual returns, the publishing trade buzzed with rumors about what the Digest had done or would do: that it had been bought with Republican or Hearstian gold, that its editors had bet and lost a fortune on the vote, that it would never again attempt...
...Court, and sees withdrawal from European entanglements as the sound American policy for the present. His articles on international affairs are small in bulk, considering the series of erlscs that began in Europe in March, 1933. They, like the other places, show him to be not always a good prophet, but usually a sound observer...
...poetry was only surpassed by her industry in talking about them. The most truly astounding aspect of her work for "the new poetry" is surely the indefatigableness she displayed in her lectures. She talked from Maine to Texas; and though it is said that no man is a prophet in his own country, Miss Lowell could jam Paine Hall and the lecture-room at the Boston Public Library--and repeat these accomplishments. She made a nation poetry-conscious...
Governor Curley was on the stand as the New Haven prophet lashed out at political interference in one of the most energetic attacks since last year's passage of Massachusetts' Oath...
...trusting to private polls, it had sent a postcard questionnaire to 280,000 Maine voters, almost every one in the State. Returns had shown every Republican candidate running from 3-10-2 to 3-to-1 ahead of his Democratic opponent. Chairman Hamilton risked his prophet's reputation last week by asserting flatly that Maine would go down the Republican line by 50,000 to 100,000 votes...