View Italy As Friend Dewey Asks
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey urged that Italy be treated as an ally not merely a co participant in World War II. He spoke of shared heritage and gratitude to Columbus, noting Italian Americans’ wartime sacrifice and 4 percent of the population supplying 10 percent of the armed forces.
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Italy
Dewey
Albany
Thomas E. Mohey
York City
Wendell L. Willkie
Cau
Columor
Gery
Governor Horizont 1 Puzzle Across and Down Clues
Pictorial puzzle page lists clues across and down from 1 Head cover to 62 Symbol for erbium with entries including New York and Sun god. Readers solve a mixed set of weathered wordplay and alphabetic hints across multiple numbered lines for a humorous magazine style challenge.
Willkie Campaign Speculation Roils Wartime Election
Washington gossip centers on which candidate Willkie would back in 1944. Pearson says Willkie planned to support Roosevelt. Luce denies the claim. Willkie aides and Republican leaders dispute intentions while Newsweek weighs a July statement about aloofness and a late vote for Dewey.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Drew Pearson
Washington
Willkie
Roosevelt
Henry Luce
Luce
Ralph Cake
National Republican
Oregon
Newsweek
Malcolm Muir
Dewey
Sen. Weeks
R-Mass
Willkie Kin Says He Would Not Endorse Dewey
H Frederick Willkie argues his brother Wendell Willkie did not decide to back the Democratic party and suggests he might have supported Dewey, though Wendell never stated his exact preference to him. The claim arises amid politicals using Willkie’s name after his death.
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Wendell Willkie
Drew Pearson
Democratic Party
H. Frederick Willkie
Gov
Dewey
Willkie
Plays Possum Raps Nazi with Hammer Before Fort Driant
Pvt. Vernon P. Culpepper of Lewisville Texas feigned death in Fort Driant France when a German patrol neared his tank. He sprang to action with a heavy hammer striking one Nazi while the others fled, after which the patrol assumed the crew inside the tank was dead.
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Fort Driant
France
Pvt
Vernon P. Culpepper
Culpepper
Lewisville
Texas
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