Dark Horse Willkie Named G O P Presidential Candidate
From the Philadelphia convention the Willkie surge dominated the ballot by six rounds, reaching a 633 vote majority to clinch the GOP nomination. McNary of Oregon chosen as running mate. The platform pledges peace preparedness and prosperity with anti New Deal and two term limits. Willkie’s rapid rise from relative obscurity to front runner marks a historic political ascent.
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Philadelphia
Wendell Willkie
New York
Fenale Estes
Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
Robert A.aft
Ohio
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
Roosevelt
Wilde
World War Era News Highlights Global and Domestic Moves
Secretary Hull orders Drexel Biddle to follow exiled Polish government from Bordeaux to London. Browder loses court appeal as Circuit Court of Appeals upholds his passport fraud conviction. Reports flag Lee Fillman hopes Britain and Canada plan naval action soon. Soviet demand for Bessarabia unsettles Romania amid French collapse. Iowa battleship keel laid at Brooklyn Navy Yard as RC C expands rubber stock. Ford halts plane contracts but says it can produce 1000 fighters daily. Alaska Clipper launches Seattle to Alaska route boosting defense. Pan American adds New Zealand and Argentina flights. Industrial activity reverses post December downturn with steel and tires rising. Southern Pacific eyes 2500 new freight cars.
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Cordell Hull
Anthony J. Drexel Biddie
U. S
Poland
Bordeaux
France
London
England
Earl Browder
Communist Party
United States
Circuit Court of Appeals
New York
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rey Fillman
Nev
Canada
Atlantic Sea
Soviet Union
Romania
Bucharest
Carol
Bessarabia
Russia
Rumania
Germany
Bucovina
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Iowa
America
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Henry Ford
Ford
Icace
British
Air Ministry
Alaska
Ernest Gruening
Sitka
Kodiak
Uncle Sam
Pan American Airways
South Pacific
New Zealand
Argentina
Los Angeles
Auckland
Federal Reserve Banks
Southern Pacific Railroad
League of Nations winds down as staff resigns amid global upheaval
The League of Nations announces 89 employees must resign or have contracts suspended as Secretary General Joseph Avenol begins closing the organization after Germany’s blitzes. The body, once a beacon of peace, loses members as Austria to France bow to stronger powers, while Roosevelt third-term polling and aliens registration plans fill national headlines.
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League of Nations
Joseph Avenol
Germany
League
Austria
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Albania
Finland
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Woman aviator candidate supports women fighting corps
Mrs. Lorene Holloway of Jackson Heights New York argues against knitting socks for soldiers and advocates joining U S defense forces. She envisions organizing young women fliers into a fighting corps should the nation go to war.
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Lorene Holloway
Jackson Heights
N. Y
U. S
Role of Women and Children Behind the Lines of Battle
Coverage highlights the home front effort in World War I with women and youths mobilized to support war production. Descriptions show shell case work, munition factories, and pilots ferrying planes, illustrating the extensive civilian contribution alongside front-line service.
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Mona Friedlander
Germany
Berlin
Britain
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Daughters of Britannia
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Consult
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Massachusetts Ave
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