Willkie Seeks Debates and Conscription in Campaign Speech
Willkie formally accepts the Republican nomination in Elwood Indiana and calls for debates with Roosevelt. He backs selective service as democratic manpower for defense, pledges to outpace Hitler and to defend American democracy at home and abroad. He criticizes the New Deal’s foreign and domestic policies and outlines his economic and regulatory program.
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Elwood
Ind
Wendell L. Willkie
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Willkie
Hitler
Congress
Europe
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Washington
Jefferson
Jackson
Lincoln
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Woodrow Wilson
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Waggoner Endorsed by Present and Former Speakers
Letters from ex and current Texas speakers praise Jim Waggoner of Whitewright in advance of a run off for reelection to the House. Emmett Morse and R W Calvert commend his experience conservatism and service including chairmanship of the Claims and Accounts Committee. The endorsements appear in August 1940 correspondence from Hillsboro and Van Alstyne.
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Jim Waggoner
Jim
Texas
House
R. Emmett Morse
House of Representatives
van Alstyne
J. H. Waggoner
Whitewright
Waggoner
Claims and Accounts Committee
R. W. Calvert
Egg Marketing Association Profitable in Floyd County
Twenty Floyd County farm families formed an egg marketing association to gain about $100 yearly extra income per household. The group plans to deliver 1 000 dozen high quality eggs weekly at 4 cents above local market after a 30 day trial. Extra income averaged $40 weekly so far while work continues.
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College Station
Floyd County
Ralph Elliott Royg and Shorty Barrett Seek County Clerk
Ralph Elliott Royg and Co H Shorty Barrett run for county clerk positions in the same race. The candidates present their bids for the county office amid local campaign activity and party support.
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Co. H. (Shorty) Barrett
Women more deadly in crime figures from the era
The Justice Department reports women are 7.6 percent deadlier than men. In early 1940, 13 women per 1000 were charged with murder vs 10 men, and 55 women faced assault charges to 52 men. Yet men committed more minor crimes and women accounted for 8.2 percent of all arrests.
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Washington
Justice Department
My Wife Always Has the Last Word Joke
A humorous exchange about marriage ends with the wife always speaking last and the husband admitting he never reaches it. The light banter plays on pride and listening in a playful domestic bit.
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Rocky Hill
Richard O'Brien
Mary
Grandma's
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Jim) Waggoner
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