Wartime Convention Leaders Draft GOP Platform
Republican leaders in Congress prepare for Chicago deliberations to craft a 1944 party platform with Taft as resolutions chair and Vandenberg shaping the foreign policy plank. Key figures include Hoover to speak, Bricker and Dewey debated, with Gov. Warren and Hickenlooper among others guiding farm and postwar policy themes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Robert A. Taft
R.-D
Congress
Chicago
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Rmich
Mackinac
Resolutions Committee
Farts Wheelhouses
Earl Arren
California
Hoover
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
House
Herbert Hoover
Clare Boothe Luce
R.-Conn
John W. Bricker
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
International News Service
Pennsylvania
Keystone
Penns
Dewey
Warren
Bricker
Simeon 5. Willis
Kentucky
Everett M. Dirksen
Ill
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Towa
GOP Platform Echoes Mackinac Charter At Mackinac Island
Republican leaders forecast a party platform at the national convention closely mirroring the Mackinac Charter. The draft pledges world cooperation to keep the peace after victory and criticizes Roosevelt era government spending and tax policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hackien Washington
Mackinac
GOP
Mackinac Island
Mich
Roosevelt
Army cadets and officers pursue training and assignments
Roy Coleman of Ow is finishing basic training and attending technical school at Camp Lee Virginia. Second Lt. Joseph L. Newsomer, commissioned from the air corps officers' candidate school in Miami Beach, is assigned to Tuskegee Army Air Field and is the son of Mrs. Addie M. Newsome of Morgantown.
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Claude W. Hunter
State Road Commission
The
Th Army Air Force
Italy
Gladys
Hunter
Wacs
C. W. Hunter
Athens
James Cunningham
Ft.Jackson
S. C
Lois Crane Cummings
Washington St
J. M. Cummings
Sugar Creek
John Philip Witry
Pierr Witry
Nitro
Marfa
Tex
Basil M. Bolte
USNR
Hollywood
Fla
James Norman Thaxton
Ruby V. Thaxton
Brooklyn
N. Y
George
Shamblin
Hendrix Av
Lewis A. Clark
Thomas A. Clark
Clendenin
Roi Island
Pacific
Glack) Humphries, Jr
Haa
Ft. Meade
Ruth
G. C. Humphries
Pennsylvania
George Lee Thaxton
Great Lakes
George M. Sharmbiin
Coleman Trippett
Ft. Bliss
Ft. Eustis
Trene Trippett
Dunbar
BR. R. Cole
Capitol St
Wilson P. Cole
Sgt
Cole
the Gazette
Minnie Spence
Kanawha Blvd
Altus
Okla
Juanita Lewis
MacCorkie
South Charleston
Roy Coleman
Eft
Berta Coleman
Camp Lee
Joseph L. Newsomer
Air Corps Administration Officers’ Candidate School
Miami Beach
Tuskegee Army Air Field
Addie M. Newsome
Morgantown
Marriage Applications and Transfers in Local Notices
Marriage applications list Leonard Hackwoven and Kathleen Henderson. Birth announcements note Clyde Ware's June 13 transfer from Breezy Point and visit with Pearl Eggleton. A long list of property transfers and diversions follows, ending with a note that pinball games have been repurposed for temperature control use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Hackwoven
Washington St
Kathleen Henderson
Clyde Ware
South
Charleston General Hospital
Naval Air Station
Seattle
Wash
Breezy Point
Norfolk
Pearl M. Eggleton
Cora St
C. A. Eggleton
South Ruffner
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United States
OPA
Charleston
Joseph Allen Stewart
McCorkley Av
Stewart
Iron
Gates
Tews
John Rose
Davis Creek
Road Commission
Ashford General Hospital
White Sulphur Springs
Trent E. Shumake
Ashburn General Hospital
McKermey
Trent Shumake
Harvey
Sat
Billy Frazier Eads
Gazette
Santa Barbara
Cal
Everet Eads
Acme
George F. Shingle
Alfred Smith
Smith
Warr
Ner Brothers
Jim Nelson
New Guinea
Sidney Nelson
Rt 6
Paul Eugene Baisden
Homan Burgess
Blair
Naval Training Station
Lookout
Army Air Base
Ephrata
Charles Weton
Drip G. Co
Ghost
U. S
William H. Belcher
Federal Grand Jury
Bclance
Paces Antlers
Floor
Avenge
Coate
Gidlet
EB. Kinder
D. Wisalen
Falcon Acres
Biotec
Virgil Hayes
Wits
O. A. Thumree
Jet
O. A. Mempon
D. 0. Thompson
A. Kelly
Hubert AL Melly
Aresea
London
Brit. P. Bowl Ina
Ueracny
Weimer Dp
James Satobe
Earle Paitipa
Fir Development
Ftant
Emma Justice
Tibet
Ryan
Charles 8. Young
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