Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-08 | Page 8 | Roosevelt Fails to Enjoy One Fervent Wish as GOP Glamor Girl Wins Reelection

Roosevelt Fails to Enjoy One Fervent Wish I As GOP Girl Wins Reelection 1 By Edith Ga Gaylord lord V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Nov t. 8 UP ur- ur President Roosevelt was denied one fervently expressed wish in inthis inthis this election election Clare Clare Boothe Luce won on These Thes two dueled right down downto t to the wire The Republican lamor girl seeking her second term in the house from the Fourth Connecticut Connecticut cut district stung the administration administration administration adminis adminis- every chance chanco she got on the stump slump Mr Roosevelt told his seren serenading serenading sere sere- n neighbors Tuesday night that it would prove provo a mighty good thing for the country if the blond a aut u t h Jl o 0 r-pl r playwright r-playwright were defeated For a while it looked as though that would hl happen Democratic Candidate Margaret Margaret Margaret Mar Mar- garet Eleanor Connors 29 year 29 old attorney piled up tin nn early carly plurality which led Mr MI Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt to remark to Hyde Park neighbors that my friend seems to bo be winning After saying that Mrs Luces Luce's defeat would be a good thing he temporized a rough thing to say about a lady Vice President Wallace was in the fight tight against her too He stumped the Fourth district for Cor Miss Connors thereby draw draw- I ing from Mrs Luce the epithet of carpetbagger I Active labor support Including Including Including ing the political action committee commit commit- I tee helped push Miss Connors well welt ahead in industrialized Bridgeport but late reporting rural ruml voting pulled the tho congresswoman con con- g ahead by some 1500 Mrs Luce barnstormed the midwest and east cast with charges es that Mr Roosevelt was the worlds world's leading Isolationist and appeaser who lied us into war She W was S cast by Republicans as the tho leading feminine attraction attraction tion at the Chicago convention when they designated her the only woman to make a major speech