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...virtually every whistle stop during his campaign tours, President Harry Truman humorously asked the voters to re-elect him because "then I won't be troubled with the housing problem." By last week it had become apparent that re-election wasn't going to solve the problem, even for Harry Truman. An engineering survey of the 150-year-old White House showed that it was little better than a fire trap, so weakened by age and by stresses set up as a result of haphazard patching and alteration that it could not be made safe without major repairs...
...form the nation's strong, bipartisan foreign policy. Taft's cold, moral judgment and insistence on getting at the facts had more than once saved the Senate from hysterical legislation. Dewey's businesslike administration of New York has won him a popularity which would apparently re-elect him by a landslide. What about 67-year-old Ed Martin of Pennsylvania...
...Ecuador elected a Constituent Assembly and swung right. Socialists and Liberals boycotted the election, but the Conservatives would probably have won anyway. The new constitution was expected to back clerical schooling and keep the Indian in his semifeudal place, but not to sacrifice recent social and economic gains by city workers. The assembly would also choose the next Ecuadorean President. It was an even-money bet that they would not re-elect the erratic incumbent, Dr. José Maria Velasco Ibarra...
...antagonism between the C.I.O. and A.F. of L. I don't want to light the fuse." Said Illinois' Scott Lucas, leading the fight for the Administration, "the basic reason [for the opposition] was that Mr. McKeough went out to work for the P.A.C. to help re-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...somewhat more massive corpse was the Liberal Party, which, caught in Labor's bloody angle, lost seven of its 18 parliamentary seats, and failed to re-elect its leader, Sir Archibald Sinclair, its president, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, or its most celebrated candidate, Social Planner Sir William Beveridge...