CAMPAIGNS: Nebraska and Illinois Primaries

Last week, as Nebraska and Illinois edged up to their April 9 Presidential preferential primaries, the question Democrats pondered was not who would win, but how much he would win by. "Who" in both States was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Republicans had a wider choice of worries.

> In Nebraska, where the primary election was expected to be a straw in the wind of this year's farm votes, ripe and eager was Thomas E. Dewey, silent and aloof was his rival. Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Twice "Buster" Dewey had invaded Nebraska, speechifying, conferring, shaking...

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