Willkie Secures GOP Nomination At Philadelphia Rally
At the Republican convention Wendell Willkie surges from political unknown to nominee with a 633 vote total on the sixth ballot, while Senator Charles McNary is chosen as his running mate. The platform calls for keep out of war, stronger defense, and two term limits. Russia presses its claims on Bessarabia as Romania faces German and Soviet pressure. The Iowa keel lays for a 45,000-ton super-dreadnought as RC funds rubber and tin stocks. Ford halts aircraft plans while Ford-built engines for planes are negotiated with Britain.
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Philadelphia
Wendell Willkie
New York
Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Wilkie
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
Roosevelt
France
Atlantic Sea
England
Soviet Union
Rumania
Bucharest
Carol
Bessarabia
Russia
Germany
Bucovina
Brooklyn Navy Yard
U. S&. Fieet
Iowa
America
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Henry Ford
Ford
British Air Ministry
Ford Company
John Hamilton
Republican National Committee
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
Dewey
Taft
Senator Vandenberg
Hitler
Glenn Frank
Dr Frank
Aviation expands routes as Alaska Clipper begins service
Alaska Clipper opens Seattle to Alaska passenger runs cutting a four day sea voyage to about five hours with twenty aboard as Sitka and Kodiak build up air bases. Pan American plans Pacific and Argentina routes with Auckland service in July. Steel and auto tire production rise amid defense material demand. Southern Pacific considers 2500 new freight cars.
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America
Alaska
Ernest Grueening
Sitka
Kodiak
Uncle Sam
Pan American Airways
South Pacific
New Zealand
Argentina
Los Angeles
Auckland
Federal Reserve Banks
U S
Southern Pacific Railroad
League of Nations Ends as World War II Shifts Power
The League of Nations closes operations as May 16 notices force 89 employees to resign or face suspension amid the blitz against the Low Countries. The once hopeful body fades as aggressors rise and nations yield to stronger powers.
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League of Nations
Joseph Avenol
Germany
League
Austria
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Albania
Finland
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Unbossed Republicans Pick Willkie McNary Ticket
The 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia selects Wendell Willkie for president and Charles L. McNary for vice president after a day of brisk speeches and shifting loyalties. Delegates, moving from older leaders, form a new, contentious coalition and unite behind Willkie with Hoover and Stassen delivering rallying speeches. The platform emphasizes war readiness and opposition to the New Deal, while debate centers on isolationist strains and the party's future leadership.
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America
Dewey
Vandenberg
Taft
Willkie
James
Bridges
Bricker
Martin
Hoover
MacNider
Gannett
Wendell Willkie
Charles L McNary
Europe
Harold E Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Cleveland
Diplomatic Moves Signal Shifts in Europe and US
Secretary of State Cordell Hull ordered Anthony J. Drexel Biddle to follow the exiled Polish government from Bordeaux to London. Earl Browder won an appeal over a passport fraud conviction. Senator Key Pillman urged Britain to act promptly in naval plans with Canada denying any immediate New World strike.
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Cordell Hull
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
A. 5
Poland
Bordeaux
France
London
England
Earl Browder
Communist Party
United States
Circuit Court of Appeals
New York
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Key Pillman
Nev
Canada
Small Town Boy Willkie Rise To White House Nominee
Wendell L. Willkie's improbable ascent from a working life in Indiana Minnesota Texas Wyoming and California to Republican presidential nomination is profiled. Born 1892 in Elwood Indiana he built a law career then led Commonwealth & Southern and emerged as a persuasive public speaker with broad appeal.
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Harold E. Kenton
White House
Wendell L. Willkie
Philadelphia
Willkie
Indiana
Minnesota
Texas
Wyoming
Colorado
California
Kansas
Indiana University
Wendell Willkie
Elwood
Herman Francis Willkie
Prussia
Willeke
America
Wendell
France
Edith Wilk
Akron
Ohio
Commonwealth & Southern Utility Company
New York
Wil Rogers
Woman named assistant sergeant at arms at Philadelphia convention
For the first time in Republican history a woman, Mary Berkmeier Quinn of Chicago, is named assistant sergeant at arms at the Philadelphia convention. Taft headquarters boasted the largest telephone setup with 120 trunk lines. An expert noted convention feet differ from World’s fair feet and observed the garter line wear. Philadelphia’s ancient Mummers parade, usually New Year’s Day, was staged during the convention as an all male spectacle.
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Philadelphia
Mary Berkmeier Quinn
Chicago
Finais
Taft
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League OF Nations: Business Report
Fortune Magazine
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Justice Department
G. O. P. National Convention
Willkie McNary
By Wright A. Patterson
Charles L. McOnary
Lorene Holloway
Jackson Heights
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