Word: elwood
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...This young man was born and raised in Elwood. He attended the Elwood public schools. He worked in your factories and your stores. He started the practice of law in your courts. As I look back upon him, I realize that he had plenty of faults. But he also had three steadfast convictions. He was devoted to the ideal of individual liberty, He hated all special privileges and forms of oppression. And he knew without any doubt that the greatest country on earth was the United States of America...
...Speech at Elwood...
...Uncountables. The crowd that moved in on Elwood, Ind. from all the states and towns around to hear his acceptance speech on Aug. 17 was unquestionably the greatest crowd in U.S. political history. It was uncountable; no stadium could have held it; the estimates ranged as high as 500,000 and none less than 200,000.* To that crowd Wendell Willkie made a great, an eloquent-and an unpolitical-speech. It was poorly delivered; his word-slurring, Hoosier-twang delivery was a shock to citizens used to the sophisticated fluency of Mr. Roosevelt's radio voice. But that speech...
...hours. Major General William Kepner (the Eighth Air Force fighter commander) flew around in a stratosphere balloon. Spaatz himself commanded the famous endurance flight of the Fokker monoplane Question Mark. In his crew were Lieut. General Ira Eaker, now Allied air commander in the Mediterranean, and Brigadier General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, Ninth Air Force fighter commander in Britain...
...invocation will be given by Chaplain (Captain) Leland B. Henry, and will be followed by the presentation of diplomas by Chaplain (Colonel) William B. Cleary, Commandant of the School. Chaplain (Captain) Elwood C. Nance will pronounce the benediction...