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Newberry Ford clash outlined in wartime election clash
The piece recalls the 1918 Michigan Senate race pitting Truman H. Newberry against Henry Ford. It argues the verdicts and funding shaped by wartime politics, with Ford supporters including pacifists and antiwar factions and Newberry’s record as a war veteran cited to support his candidacy. It cites Wilson’s role and the broad political stakes.
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Fort Wayne News
Newberry
Sessions
Henry Ford
William R. Hearst
Ford
Senator Newberry
Woodrow Wilson
Col. Roosevelt
Wilson
Truman H. Newberry
Truman H. New
France
Commander Newberry
Michigan
Comander Newberry
Edsel
Washington
Poltroon
W. W
Bloomington
Cross Roads
Our Fair Little City
Jim Stive
Indianapolis
Ed Bascomb
Germany
Sally Hawkins
Sally
Dick Bledsoe
Bill Blithers
Johnny Spruceley
Squire Hartsock