THE PRESIDENCY: Master piece

Masterpiece

Early election morning, while most voters were still asleep, election officials at Watertown, Wis., rubbed their sleepy eyes. Into the polls waddled 215-lb. Arthur E. ("Turkey") Gehrke to cast his vote for "the winner" so that next day he could with an easy conscience go to bed as usual for the winter. But there was neither sleep nor astonishment in the eyes of election officials at Hyde Park, N. Y. at 11 a. m. when they handed out ballot No. 312 et seq. to Franklin D. Roosevelt & family. In...

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