Term IV: All Set

New Deal-hating Pundit David Lawrence last week revealed what he fears: Franklin Roosevelt will win Term IV by a "substantial" electoral majority. The Lawrence logic: "The isolationist wing of the Republican Party is daily growing bolder and bolder. Unless checked in the next six months, [it] will virtually hand the election to Mr. Roosevelt on a plat-ter."†

† An earlier Lawrence prediction, ten months before the 1940 election: that Franklin Roosevelt would not seek a third term.

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