Republicans Eye Change in High Stakes 1948 Campaign
A deep dive into the 1948 Republican landscape notes a rare open convention, no incumbent president, and a climate shaped by television. It highlights intra party rifts between Taft and Eisenhower factions, the shift from a GOP majority to a minority, and the critical need to win independents and Democrats to prevail.
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GOP
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gallup
Taft
Eisenhower
Columbia
Senate
Pennsylvania Avenue
West Ministers to Air German Unification
London reports the Big Three foreign ministers plan a united Western reply to Russia on Germany's future. Acheson Eden and Schuman seek a four power path toward elections in West and East Germany with a neutral commission to assess free elections. Bonn signals delay on West German treaties until autumn.
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Michael Newmarch
London
Russia
Dean Acheson
Britain
Anthony Eden
France
Robert Schuman
Germany
Bonn
West Germany
Paris
Pentagon witness Finletter backs public disclosure on defense money
Secretary of the Air Force Finletter said he would risk exposing some military secrets to inform the American people about defense programs. He testified behind closed doors to the Senate Appropriations Committee and argued officials must explain what is being done to gain public backing and funding.
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Washington
Air Force
Finletter
Pentagon
Senate Appropriations Committee
American Lutherans Donate 342893 In Minnesota District
The Minnesota district of the American Lutheran Church reported 342893 in benevolence giving for last year. Treasurer Rev P J Haupt said 31740 funded Lutheran world action. The convention voted to sever ties with CROP and back Lutheran World Relief, a move aligned with the National Lutheran Council.
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Onamia
Minn
Minnesota
American Lutheran Church
P. J. Haupt
Springfield
Lutheran World Action
Christian Relief Overseas Program
CROP
Lutheran World Relief Program
National Lutheran Council
Ancher Nelson to File for Lt Governor Nomination
ST. PAUL Ancher Nelsen of Hutchinson announced he will file as a Republican nominee for lieutenant governor on his return from the national convention in Chicago. Nelsen, a former state senator, said reports he might file prompted his announcement. He was defeated for lieutenant governor two years ago by C Elmer Anderson, then lieutenant governor and now governor. Nelsen is a delegate-at-large to the convention and a member of the resolutions committee shaping the platform.
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ST. Paul
Ancher Nelsen
Hutchinson
Chicago
Nelsen
C. Elmer Anderson
Even Democrats Like GOP Convention Head
Walter Simms Hallanan heads the 1952 Republican National Convention Arrangements Committee and earns broad Democratic and GOP support. A Taft ally, Hallanan recalls cross party cooperation in 1944 with Ed Pauley to share convention costs. He stresses impartiality as temporary chairman and notes his long WV political service and oil wealth with Plymouth Oil.
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Charles R. Lewis
Charleston
W.va
Walter Simms Hallanan
Chicago
Hallanan
Edward W. Pauley
Los Angeles
Chilled to the Bone in 88 Degree Heat
In New York City 33 year old Benjamin Neuman was found locked inside a refrigerated dairy truck and believed chilled to the bone. Police pulled him from the freezer after he accidentally locked himself in as the day’s high reached 88 degrees.
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New York
Benjamin Neuman
Neuman
Adventists' Role in War Described at Camp Meeting
At the Minnesota Seventh-day Adventist camp meeting Rev. W. H. Bergheim said about 400 Adventists serve in Korea's medical corps as litter bearers hospital orderlies and first aid men with no weapons. He noted many were trained at church cadet camps or Adventist colleges and earned bravery decorations.
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Minneapolis
Armed Forces Medical Corps
Minnesota
W. H. Bergheim
Washington
International Medical Cadet
Korea
Bergheim
Dical
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Abraham Lincoln
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Republican Committee
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Mississippi
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