With election day less than six weeks off, the Democratic presidential campaign bowled into October more smoothly than any since 1916. The prospect of party victory, rarely brighter, supplied most of the motive power. Day after day on his western tour Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with speeches widely acclaimed as making sense, held the front pages of the nation. Close beside him at every turn could be seen the rosy bald spot of his astute manager, National Chairman James Aloysius Farley whose purpose, like that of a...
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