MR ROOSEVELT REBUKED NEW YORK, November 17. President Roosevelt has been asked to apologise for “shocking profanity.” While he was using the voting machine on November 7 during the Presidential election the machine jammed. “From the voting booth came the clank of gears and a lever being jerked irritably back and forth,” says a “Times” account of the incident. “Then a voice familiar to the world exclaimed from behind the curtains, ‘The God-damned thing won’t work.’ ” The Californian Ministerial Association insists that the President make amends.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 December 1944, Page 2
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