With gestures suggesting horizon-scanning to foresee Election Day results, New York State Democratic Chairman James A. Farley, left, and attorney General John J. Bennett, Jr., look across a luncheon table in New York at a meeting of the American Federation of Labor non-partisan committee for the Democratic ticket, Nov. 2, 1942. Bennett faces Thomas E. Dewey in the gubernatorial election. (AP Photo/John Rooney)