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Sitting in a sort of warehouse, in a cleft between stacks of books and papers, an aging, well-fleshed man with a baldish cranium and lips that purse above a button chin, has lately been saying over and over again: "Coolidge will be reelected. ... It is a certainty that Coolidge will be reelected. . . . Coolidge has had only ONE election. . . . He will be re-elected etc."

Sometimes he varies the thought. "Prosperity," he declares, "is going to continue. . . . This country will continue to be prosperous. . Don't...

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