Famous Last Words

Said the following famed citizens just before the ballots flew:

Fiorello H. LaGuardia: There is no use getting mad about it.

Mrs. Roosevelt (on viewing a mock torchlight parade at Manhattan's Velvet Ball): I find this kind of politics very delightful. When done by the young politicians it is charming.

Mrs. Landon: I feel very definitely that the women all over the United States have played a tremendous part in the outcome.

Peggy Anne Landon: I've got to do some studying over the weekend.

Edward A. Filene: Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all of it from them.

Mrs. Edward E. Hughes (relict of Thomas A. Edison): Governor Landon is one of the finest young men I have ever met.

James A. Reed: God bless the Constitution.

John Llewellyn Lewis: To me, Landon is just as empty, just as inane, just as innocuous as a watermelon that has been boiled in a washtub.

Rev. Charles E. Coughlin (on his application of the terms "liar," "betrayer," "double-crosser" and "scab President" to Franklin Roosevelt) : I wish to close this campaign by apologizing . . .for words which ordinarily do not issue from the lips of a gentleman.

Alfred E. Smith: We'll all soon be out of the woods.

Mrs. Wilma Hoyal (women's division chief of the Republican National Committee) : Look at Spain and vote like Maine!

Lillian Gish (defending New Deal spending): What does it matter so much that from the facts-and-figures point of view the balance sheet of life is in the black if one's soul as a result of it is in the red?

Mrs. Preston ("Volunteers") Davie: Swing time is here!

Charles S. Whitman (onetime Governor of New York): On the whole, the Republican Party has stood for great things.

James J. Walker: Roosevelt cannot be a Communist with Jim Farley and Ed Flynn as right-hand men.

John Roosevelt (aged 20): Some people wonder why I am interested in seeing my father reelected. I can't vote, but I have got to the point where I believe his policies will make a better world for me to live in.

Henry Ford: I haven't voted for 20 years, but I am going to vote this time. Vote for Landon. And for Knox. Now, there's a vigorous fellow!

The last word in something or other was provided by Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling in a nationally syndicated cartoon titled "Halloween 1936" (see cut).

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