Kingdon Resigns to Lead Catholic Unity Drive Abroad
Dr. Frank Kingdon resigns as president of the University of Newark to join the Citizenship Educational Service and advocate American unity against disruptive forces. Theodore Roosevelt chairs the group. Kingdon serves as educational director and speaks on freedom, Christianity, and tolerance at Charlottesville.
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Dark Horse Willkie Topped GOP Nomination At Philadelphia
From the Republican national convention in Philadelphia Wen dell Willkie seized the lead on successive ballots to win the nomination with 633 votes to 501 needed. Sen. Charles L. McNary Oregon was chosen as his vice presidential running mate. The party platform favored keep-out-of-war defense and two presidential terms while criticizing the New Deal and Roosevelt. Willkie rose from relative obscurity to apparent frontrunner in two months.
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Willkie Gains Edge as Roosevelt Seeks Third Term Nomination
Secretary Cordell Hull orders Anthony J. Drexel Biddle to accompany the exiled Polish government from Bordeaux to London. In New York, Earl Browder loses another court battle as the Appeals Court upholds his passport fraud conviction. Key Pittman hopes Britain will fight from the Americas with its navy. London denies plans. Soviet influence presses Romania over Bessarabia as King Carol tries to balance Germany and Russia. The Brooklyn navy yard lays the keel of the Iowa, a 45,000-ton super-dreadnought, while RCF moves to stockpile rubber and tin. Henry Ford suspends plane plans, but will build 1,000 planes daily for the government using 3,000 Rolls-Royce motors. Britain orders 6,000 motors from Ford.
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Unbossed Republicans nominating Willkie McNary ticket
The 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia named Wendell Willkie for president and Charles L. McNary for vice president after a week of rival candidacies. Delegates, new to power and wary of old bosses, debated platform planks and war policy while Hoover and Stassen energized the gathering. Interest centered on unity under Willkie amid a colorful, frenetic convention.
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Small Town Boy Willkie Story Traces Rise to White House
The piece traces Wendell L. Willkie from Indiana childhood to Republican nomination. It details his varied early work from farming and newspaper selling to cementing a hotel business, teaching in Kansas, and studying at Indiana University. Born 1892 in Elwood, Ind., he is son of two lawyers and comes from a German immigrant grandfather.
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Women named as assistant sergeant at arms at Republican convention
At the Philadelphia convention Mary Berkmeier Quinn of Chicago becomes the first woman named to the post. Taft headquarters runs 120 trunk lines. The text notes a World's Fair foot analogy and a colorful Philadelphia Mummers parade staged during the event.
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