Willkie Named GOP Nominee at Republican Convention
The 1940 Republican convention chose Wendell Willkie as its presidential nominee after a rapid ascent from relative obscurity. Charles L. McNary was named running mate. The platform urged peace, preparedness, and two presidential terms while criticizing Roosevelt and the New Deal. International events include Romania ceding Bessarabia to the Soviet Union, and U.S. naval construction beginning with the Iowa battleship keel laying at Brooklyn.
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Republian
Pradelphia
Asplant
Wendell Willkie
Triventon
New York
Willkie
Thomas E Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
Roosevelt
France
Atlantic Sea
England
Soviet Union
Rumania
Bucharest
Carol
Bessarabia
Russia
Germany
Bucovina
Brooklyn Navy Yard
U. S
Iowa
America
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Henry Ford
Ford
British Air Ministry
Ford Company
Aviation advances expand routes and defense links
Alaska Governor hails Alaska Clipper service between Seattle and Juneau as a quick link cutting boat travel to five hours. Sitka and Kodak host new naval bases as Pan Am begins South Pacific service to New Zealand and a daily Buenos Aires route launches July 12. Industrial activity shows a rebound with steel mills at capacity and rising auto tire shipments while Southern Pacific eyes 2500 new freight cars.
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America
Alaska
Ernest Gruening
Sitka
Kodak
Uncle Sam
Pan American Airways
South Pacific
New Zealand
Argentina
Los Angeles
Auckland
Federal Reserve Banks
U S
Southern Pacific Railroad
League of Nations winds down as global crisis peaks
The League of Nations told 89 employees to resign or have contracts suspended as Secretary General Joseph Avenol began closing the body after Germanys blitz against the low countries. The once hopeful peace forum falters while Europe succumbs to aggressive powers. Separate notes cite a Fortune poll showing 49 percent backing a Roosevelt third term and pending 3.5 million alien registrations under new federal law.
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Joseph Avenol
Germany
League
Austria
Poland
Czecho-Swabia
Albania
Finland
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Fortune Magazine
Roosevelt
Justice Department
Willkie McNary Ticket Leads GOP At 1940 Convention
Overview of the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Wendell Willkie named as presidential nominee after a roll call, Charles L. McNary chosen as VP. Delegates, a new generation of leaders, and debates over war policy and isolationism shape a colorful, unsettled but unified platform.
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America
Dewey
Vandenberg
Taft
Willkie
James
Bridges
Bricker
Martin
Hoover
MacNider
Gannett
Wendell Willkie
Charles L McNary
John Hamilton
Republican Natinal Committee
Philadelphia
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
Europe
Harold E Stassen
Minnesota
Herbert Hoover
Stassen
Cleveland
Hitler
Henry Ford
Glenn Frank
Diplomats and politics readied for changing fronts
Secretary of State Cordell Hull ordered Anthony J. Drexel Biddle to follow the exiled Polish government from Bordeaux to London. Earl Browder loses another appeal as the U S Court upholds his passport fraud conviction. Senator Key Pittman expresses wary hope Britain will engage from the New World, while London denies any such plan.
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Cordell Hull
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
U. S
Poland
Bordeaux
France
London
England
Earl Browder
Communist Party
United States
Circuit Court of Appeals
New York
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Key Pittman
Nev
Canada
Small Town Boy Makes Good Willkie Saga Tells Life
A portrait of Wendell L. Willkie, born in Elwood Indiana in 1892, rising from farm work and various jobs to Indiana University then law, service in World War I, and leadership in business before entering politics. The piece notes his rise from obscurity to Republican presidential nominee and compares his charm to Will Rogers.
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Harold E. Kenton
White House
Wendell L. Willkie
Philadelphia
Indiana
Minnesota
Texas
Wyoming
Colorado
California
Kansas
Indiana University
Wendell Willkie
Elwood
Ind
Herman Francis Willkie
Prussia
Willike
America
Wendell
France
Edith Wilk
Akron
Ohio
Commonwealth & Southern Utility Company
New York
Will Rogers
Woman named assistant sergeant at arms at Philadelphia convention
Mary Berkmeier Quinn of Chicago becomes the first woman named to the post at a Republican convention. Taft headquarters boasted 120 trunk telephone lines. An expert notes convention feet differ from World’s Fair feet, and Philadelphia’s ancient Mummers Parade is staged during the event, an all male affair.
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Philadelphia
Mary Berkmeier Quinn
Chicago
Illinois
Taft
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Dark Horse
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Berg
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Gaul
Caesar
Italy
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Lorene Holloway
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