Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...En Route. Nominee Willkie went East like no other Presidential candidate in history. The things he did & said, the things that happened, were fantastically different from anything in U. S. political memory. The professionals-politicos, newshawks, photographers-had only gradually come to understand that, since Mr. Willkie was no politician, his campaign, in any ordinary sense, would be unpolitical. This was the root cause of the Willkie failures and the Willkie triumphs. He did everything politically wrong on a magnificent scale; when he was right he was terrific...
Having beaten Brown, the Senators abandoned further attempts to keep the bill clean. As the final vote approached, Pat Harrison accepted amendments right & left. Key Pittman of Nevada got blanket exemption for all his friends who are en gaged in mining various "strategic" war materials. Texas' Tom Connally swelled the bill by more than 100 pages with a steeply graduated income tax, to be imposed in case the U. S. declares war. Senator George introduced a subtle liberalization which would reduce the yield still further, and which nobody quite under stood...
...En Route to Lisbon...
Died. Dr. Glenn Frank, 52, longtime educator and GOPundit, candidate for Wisconsin's Republican nomination for U. S. Senator; and Reporter Glenn Frank Jr., 21, his son; in a motor accident en route to a speaking engagement; near Green Bay, Wis. When in 1925 Dr. Frank resigned as editor-in-chief of Century Magazine, became the University of Wisconsin's famed "boy president," he was first welcomed, finally ousted (1937) by Progressive Governor Phillip F. La Follette. Fortnight ago Dr. Frank had rescued an injured motorist (TIME, Sept...
...NORTHERN PORT, IN ENGLAND, (Mon.)--A British refugee ship en route to Canada has been torpedoed with a loss of 294 lives, including many babies and children tossed into the sea or victims of lingering death in lifeboats, it was revealed early today...