Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, remembering 1928's upheaval and having heard that it might be repeated, Republican Nominee Wendell Willkie announced that he would try to break the Solid South again in 1940. Too soon it was to judge the practical force of Willkie sentiment stirring in the South. But there were seeds of a revolt against entrenched politics. To Wendell Willkie went hundreds of telegrams from Southern Democrats (see p. 14). In Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, in Texas, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Willkie clubs sprang up overnight, formed by lifelong Democrats to back a Republican candidate...
...Solid? The South as a political unit (see map) consists of the eleven Southern States which seceded in 1860-61 to form the Confederacy; and Oklahoma, which became a State in 1907, has generally voted with its Democratic neighbors, Texas and Arkansas. Kentucky likes to think of itself as a Southern State; so do Missouri, Maryland, Delaware. But most Southerners and politicians regard these four as border States, likely to blow North or South with the winds...
Last week a FORTUNE Poll, taken between the Republican and Democratic Conventions, reported some of the most sensational reversals in public opinion to date, indicated that President Roosevelt would carry little outside the Solid South (see col. 3) if the election were held immediately after the Conventions. Salient FORTUNE findings...
Rattling along in this fashion last week, BBC's Newscaster Charles ("Filthy") Gardner brought to British listeners radio's first eyewitness blow-by-blow account of a full-dress air battle. Nervous, wiry, a pilot himself, Gardner patrolled the English Coast with a recording van for a solid week before he happened upon an air fight off the chalk cliffs of Dover. For nine frantic minutes, Gardner talked into his recording machine, then whirled off to London to persuade the Ministry of Information to issue a bulletin on the raid an hour earlier than usual. Dramatic enough...
When France fell, demands were clamorous for quick U. S. action on Martinique. But last week, as the Martinique stalemate continued, there were solid U. S. reasons for wanting that stalemate to last as long as possible. On the eve of the Havana conference, Brazilians suddenly came out with a proposal that Brazil be given a mandate over British, French and Dutch Guiana. This looked like common sense to many Brazilians who had not considered that it would be an act of war against Britain, and it pleased some pro-fascist Brazilians who wanted just that. Next, Cuba...