Willkie's Varied Life Includes Sessions in Texas
Portrait of Wendell L. Willkie, born 1892 in Elwood Indiana, detailing his diverse early jobs from farm boy to oil field worker and tent hotel operator, his rise as a lawyer and utility executive, and path to the 1940 Republican presidential nomination.
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Willkie
Texas
Chris Cunningham
New York
U.P
Wendell Lewis Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern Corp
Ohio
Roosevelt
Elwood
Ind
Herman Francis
Henrietta Trisch Willkie
United States
Germany
Minnesota
Wyoming
Colorado
California
Iowa
Indiana
Coffeyville
Kaw
Willkie & Willkie
France
325Th Field Artilery
Edith Wilk
Roosevelt Army Budget May Pass World War Top Spending
Washington reports President Roosevelt plans a large defense boost, aiming to more than double the prior army appropriation and push arms spending beyond the 1918 peak. The move would fund planes tanks and munitions factory expansion with Congress expected to review after recess. Also notes seizure authority over foreign vessels in American waters and mentions Willkie family background.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Congress
Germany
Business Trip For Beechler Cunningham Shaw Party
Bill Beechler Mrs C Cunningham and Mr and Mrs Neil Shaw left last night for Kansas City on a business trip. They are expected to return the first of the week. During the past two years production of crude petroleum from Canadian wells has been quadrupled.
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Bill Beechler
Cunningham
Neil Shaw
Kansas City
Rally in Canyon Draws Broad slate of candidates
In Canyon at Legion Hall this evening a broad slate of candidates will meet voters. Nearly all congressional, senatorial, legislative, and state office seekers attend with Randall County leaders and Dusty Miller sending a representative. Thompson stickers promoted by three youths from the Ernest O. Thompson campaign in the Panhandle.
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Canyon
Legion Hall
Randall County
Dusty Miller
Tell
Childress County
Gordon Fuqua
Ernest O. Thompson
Thompson
Carl
Dick Hill
Panhandle
Colonel Thompson
Amarillo Building
Sunglasses Come In New Shapes And Styles
Sunglasses return with new frames and colored lenses. The article notes frames that hide half the face, blinkers that reduce side vision, and polarizing styles meeting military specs. Prices have dropped boosting sales of higher quality lenses. A separate note reports VFW seeks to replace comrade with veteran in rituals at the Los Angeles convention.
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Amarillo
V.F.W
Pasadena
Kenneth Bell
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Los Angeles
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David Lilienthal
TVA
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Chas
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Delsey
New Wonder
MAZDA
Santa Rosa
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NEW Potatoes
PEN
Dot
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Hell
South
Jewel
Philip Willkie
Princeton University
Philip
Willkies
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Pierce Street
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Lipton’s
Morton
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Shefford
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Pinkney
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