Willkie's Liberalism Stems From Way Back
A compact portrait of Wendell Willkie's origins and rise, tracing his Indiana roots from boyhood to becoming the Republican nominee. The piece notes early family Shakespeare mornings, a social student life, and a pivotal moment when a key mentor warned others to watch Willkie as his career began after World War I.
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Thorie Siimple
Indiana
Wendell Lewis Wiile
United States
Portic
Wee Wineny
Willkie
Kaen
Heyman Willkie
Wendell Winkie
Won Willkie
Bet Theta
Swankes
Pereat
Commonwealth & Southern Corporation
Wendell J. Willkie
Kingsport Times Begins the Story of Willkie Today
The Kingsport Times starts a six part series on Wendell Willkie the Republican presidential nominee. Readers are told to expect background on his life his rise to prominence and how he became a leading candidate. The feature aims to answer where he came from and how he reached the presidency race stature.
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Wendell Willkie
Rensublican
Kingsport Times
Willkie
Wingspot Times
Washington
Knox-Stimson
Holt
DW Va
Senate
Naval Committee
Frank Knox
Knox
Wilkie
Nye
Wendell T Willkie
McNary
D-Ore
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Stimson
Wheeler
D-Mont
Chicago
Democratic Party
Auto Accidents Rise in June in Kingsport Area
June reports show 27 motor vehicle accidents in Kingsport and vicinity with one fatality and no injuries in some incidents. Three violent deaths occurred in June, including labor foreman San Lyons struck by an iron pipe. Through June, 163 accidents and 78 injuries, 16 violent deaths for the year were recorded. Police and state patrol urge caution during the Fourth of July holidays as officers will enforce traffic laws.
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Oeersons
Kingsport
Poliee
C. G. Crawford
Frank Williams
Wnt
San Lyons
Lie Detector Not for Loan Says State Bureau Official
Special Agent James Powell stated the State Bureau of Investigation will not dispatch its lie detector. He refused a husband’s request to use the device to determine if his wife was unfaithful, calling the idea inappropriate.
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Kaiogi
M. O—P
State Bureau of Investigation
James Powell
Lady Dit Mastey Arrested Near London Amid Fifth Column Fears
Lady Dit Mastey, wife of the imprisoned fascist leader, was seized near London by Sealand guard troops tasked with thwarting fifth column activities. Daughter of a British peer, she was a prewar associate of Adolf Hitler and elder sister to Humanity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, who was mysteriously shot in Germany last year.
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Dit Mastey
Great Britain
London
Sealand
Adal Hitler
Freeman-Mitford
Germany
Congress Urged By FDR to Pass New Profit Tax
President Roosevelt urged Congress to enact a steeply graduated excess profits tax for individuals and corporations without discrimination. He said the levy would raise revenue and curb wartime profits, noting the amount is not yet estimated. House Leader Rayburn attended the White House talk outlining the proposal.
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Congress
FDR
Washington
Roosevelt
House
Rayburn
White House
Magistrates Cut Budget For Sullivan County 1940 Plan
Blountville Sullivan county magistrates adopted a 1940 budget totaling 8880,23242 with a $2.00 tax levy. The court rejected a school board recommendation to fund an elementary supervisor, removing a $3,000 item from the budget. The plan shifts funds through the ordinary, interest, sinking, and insurance levies while noting overdrafts in the pike repair, car building, and high school funds and detailing post audit adjustments.
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Blountville
Spl
Sullivan County Court
Highway Department
Pike
Pridge
Joe Richards
Conly
T. R. Bundy
Pike Repair Fund
Bandy
French Casualties Estimated at 1 500 000 Men In Final Month
French losses in the last phase of the war with Germany were unofficially estimated at 1.5 million, most listed as dead or missing. The piece notes German mechanized forces overran large portions of France, detailing shortages in equipment, air power, and tanks, and cites Petain acknowledging German air superiority and French strategic weaknesses.
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San Sebastian
Spain
Germany
Laem
Adolf Hitler
France
Weygand
Tours
Henri Petain
Petain
Holland
She
Aly
Island Bases Fall Mobilize Hungary in Shaky Balkans
German troops seized the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey marking a step toward an invasion aim in Britain. Hungary mobilized along the Romanian frontier as Soviet forces attacked Romania, with tensions rising across the Balkans and the Danube region.
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Hungary
Balkans
British Deny German Landings on British Coast
The British Ministry of Information issued an official statement denying reports that German troops landed on the British coast or parachuted into the West Midlands. The Foreign Office News Department clarified Britain would not allow Syria or the Lebanon to be occupied by any hostile power following General Mittelhamer's cessation of hostilities.
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London
Ministry of Information
West Midlands
Foreign Office
Syria
Mittelhamer
Britain
Lebanon
Missions May End in Europe Allies urged to pause
The German foreign office advised the United States to discontinue all diplomatic missions in Norway Belgium Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The message signals a broad pullback affecting embassies and allied missions in northern Europe during rising tensions.
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Berlin
U.S
Norway
Belgium
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Orion-class cruiser torpedoed off Brest
The German high command announced a British Orion-class cruiser was torpedoed north of Brest. Details on damage or casualties were not disclosed.
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Berlin
Noith
Brest
Gereman High Command
Hungary Mobilizes Reserve Amid Rumors of Romania Collapse
Telegrams describe mass reserve calls across Hungary as the army corps near the Romanian frontiers tighten. An official dispatch signals the general impression that Romania is on the brink of collapse, with tightening tensions anticipated tonight.
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Budapest
Hungary
British Claim Twin Victories In Air Battles
Britain claimed double wartime success over Germany with air victories in France and near Britain. Air ministry said fighters downed several Messerschmitts and repelled Nazi raids, while a bomber crash landed offshore after abandoning a street landing. One crewman wounded, four aboard. An air wing commander reportedly shot down three German planes near Bethune as daylight raids continued.
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London
Britain
Germany
France
Kingdom
Air Ministry
Gormany
Neville Chamberlain
Imowtaian
English
Air Miinistry
Bethune
Watt
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Hitler
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