For 40 days Wendell Willkie had gone up & down the U. S., challenging his opponent to come out and fight. But Franklin Roosevelt said he was too busy. For lack of a real, live adversary, Candidate Willkie perforce tilted at windmill issues. Last week in Philadelphia the President finally dropped the pretense that he had no time for politics, made his first admittedly political speech of the campaign. He wanted, said he. to answer falsifications with facts. So twelve days before Election Day, the battle was joined. Each of the contestants pretended...
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