Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only six weeks before, Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., had officially started his campaign. Launched by groups of ardent political amateurs, his campaign had become a political children's crusade...
...Colorado boom town, worked as a migrant laborer in California. He had gone to Indiana University, been admitted to the bar, married pretty Edith Wilk, an Indiana girl. He had gone to war in France. He had returned to practice law, become the head of billion-dollar Commonwealth & Southern Corp. . . . Gravely Mr. Willkie listened. Halleck had left out some of the story. His grandparents, nonconformists, had fled from Germany a hundred years ago, political exiles. Their name: Willcke. Wendell ("Win") Willkie had not been a model boy. He had tipped over neighbors' privies, painted his class numerals...
...believe that in the end the British Navy will pass easily to you. We in Britain shall certainly fight to the end to defend our country . . . [but] quite apart from the difficulties that would arise, if you were neutral, of handing over a fleet designed to protect the British Commonwealth to a power which could not use it for that belligerent purpose, there would be little left over for you. ... I am not concerned today to attempt to tell you what you should do in this grave matter. That is your business. But I am concerned that if and when...
...factor making for U. S. prosperity and political freedom was that in the period of greatest U. S. growth the seas were under democratic control. Although U. S. -British cooperation is suspect in the U. S. because it "obviously operates to the benefit of the British Commonwealth and not so obviously to the benefit of the U. S.," Lord Lothian believes that the issue would be clear when the U. S. understood what control of the sea by totalitarian powers would mean. "Do you suppose for one moment that if Nazi Germany or Communist Russia obtained control of the seas...
...nominate him," said Indiana's Congressman Charley Halleck, "because he understands business. He is one of the most successful managers in the country." If Wendell Willkie, for the last seven years president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is elected President of the U. S. in November, he will be the first American to step into the office direct from a business job. New Dealish Columnist Samuel Grafton of the New York Post thus summarized the convention: "Instead of using the Republican Party as a professional instrument for carrying out their will, they (anti-Roosevelt business interests) have expropriated the Party...