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...there was a suggestion of a smirk on John Lewis' big face when he congratulated the miners for helping re-elect "the only President in our lifetime who has tried to give a square deal to the common people of this country." The President's regrets to the miners' convention in 1936 began "My Dear President Lewis;" fortnight ago it began "My dear John," but John Lewis has been something less than an enthusiastic Roosevelt admirer for nearly a year, has made no bones about his dissatisfaction with the President's handling of Recession...
Last week's elections (see p. 15) large and small, proved nothing if not that most of the voters who had gone to the polls had been more concerned with local issues than with national party lines. The President's vote-299th in his District-helped re-elect his friend Elmer Van Wagner by 275 votes...
Largely attended by oldsters, last week's Modern Woodmen convention at Chicago's Stevens Hotel was a colorless affair where little was done but review finances, re-elect the man who has headed the order since 1903-Adolphus Robert Talbot. Big-featured President Talbot is a 78-year-old lawyer who was once the partner of William Jennings Bryan. A strait-laced Methodist, he does not smoke, drink, chew or play cards. Having fathered two daughters and a son, he lives with his wife in Lincoln, Neb., likes to putter with flowers. His chief boast: neither the Modern...
...announces the passing of the so-called authoritative spokesmen-those who write as 'one of the President's close advisers.' " With these words the President officially disowned his intimate personal adviser and campaign aid, Dr. Stanley High, who founded the Good Neighbor League to re-elect him. Cause of the repudiation was an article by Dr. High appearing in the Saturday Evening Post, entitled "Whose Party Is It?" Prefaced by an editor's note describing its author as having the "reputation of being one of the President's close advisers," it went on to state...
...modern U. S. history, was made against weak opposition and, by its very magnitude, showed him to belong to the decade, perhaps to the century, not just to one more year. Moreover, political landslides however great are not compassed in the U. S. by just one personality and to re-elect Franklin Roosevelt because the U. S. electorate did would be a gross injustice to his prophet and political teammate, James Aloysius Farley...