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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1968
Page
8
Wendell Wilkie led Republicans with 22,305,198 votes in the 1940 presidential race against Franklin D. Roosevelt, a figure later surpassed by Dwight D. Eisenhower who topped the record in 1952 by nearly 10 million votes.
Springfield reports Senator G. William Horsley forecasts William G. Stratton as the Republican nominee. He cites broad downstate support and a WTAX poll showing Stratton leading Altorfer Ogilvie and Button in Sangamon County ahead of the June 11 primary.
Washington had no offspring, so no direct lineal descendants though he had collateral relatives. Alaska is two and one-fifth times the size of Texas, the largest U S political division.
The column humorously rewrites Parkinsons law to apply to bridge bidding. It notes East and West as a weak partnership, praises Wests bid of two and three clubs, critiques East for not bidding three clubs, and describes a sequence where East aims to lose cheaply to avoid a losing rubber. West cashes aces and kings, with discuss of cards and vulnerability.
On this date in 1942 the Battle of Midway began and US ships scored the first decisive defeat of Japan in the Pacific. Other historically noted events include Leopold's Belgian king election in 1831 and de Gaulle's 1960s actions in Algeria.
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