Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Fateful Election of 1932 was without much exitment
A look back into the files of The Record shows that the campaign for the election of 1932, which would change the fate of America, didn’t cause much of a stir in Odessa.
There wasn’t much talk of the campaign. For weeks in advance of the November 8 voting, The Record carried little or nothing about national, state or local issues. The spotlight, of course was on the presidential race, which was Franklin D. Roosevelt versus Herbert Hoover.
In a straw vote at Odessa High School, Hoover came out the winner, 79 to 68. The Record headlined news of the election: “Roosevelt Is Odessa’s Choice.” The O...
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