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Most votes for William Lemke, it is generally agreed, will be votes which would otherwise have gone to Franklin Roosevelt. What worried Democrats last week was the possibility that the loss of even a few thousand votes might lose whole states to Nominee Roosevelt, swing them to Nominee Landon. A more remote chance was that Candidate Lemke might carry one or more states in the doubtful, discontented Northwest, prevent either major candidate from getting a majority of electoral votes, throw the Presidential election into the House of Representatives for the third time in U. S. history...
...every year for seven years A hundred thousand men Gave sixty pence and sixty prayers We'd have our churches then...
...without flour and cane sugar! And we lived exceedingly well. Perhaps TIME doesn't know that R. E. Lee Wilson, who became the largest individual producer of cotton in the world, began life as a sharecropper, and that a Negro-Pickens Black of Auvergne, Ark.-has acquired several thousand acres of land by his own effort. His son bought an airplane last year! Of course the tenant system has its abuses and abusers. So has everything else. But for the thrifty, there is no more independent means of life nor certain mode of economic advancement...
...needs. There are two small co-op mail-order houses. Co-operation has been adapted to rural telephones, power plants, personal loans (credit unions), groceries, trucking, insurance, undertaking. But except for farm supplies the most conspicuous success has been with oil & gas. Co-op gas stations have multiplied two-thousand-fold since the first was founded in Cottonwood, Minn...
...tattered veterans of the convention soon to be invalided home. Around them, wet by showers but undampened in spirit, sat a new bevy of New Dealers, 100,000 strong. National Chairman Farley had rallied them to adorn the Rooseveltian triumph; 200,000 tickets had been printed; Philadelphians by the thousand had been enlisted at booths where the tickets were distributed free; Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City had delivered legions of his well-drilled yeomanry. The fresh army of enthusiasts rose and roared acclaim as Franklin Roosevelt marched out upon the platform on the arm of Son James. Standing...