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Dates: during 1940-1940
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From the crest of gigantic Chickamauga Dam, which backs up the waters of the turbulent Tennessee River eight miles above Chattanooga, President Roosevelt this week made his first major address since he accepted the Democratic nomination for the Third Term. Hatless in the withering sun, he sat in the back seat of an open car that had been run up on a hastily-built slack pine ramp. Sweat poured down the President's face, soaked through his seersucker suit...
...true St. George. In Washington Republican politicians fumed with frustration. As GOPropaganda in an ironic vein, Missouri's Congressman Dewey Short croaked: "Franklin Roosevelt is not running against Wendell Willkie. He's running against Adolf Hitler.'' Many a GOPolitician moaned privately: "With Willkie a poor third." Polls showed that Willkie vas ho'.dmg his own, momentarily. He still drew curious crowds. But these things failed to cheer many Republican politicians. In their gloomy minds, they recalled the black year of 1936 when Alf Landon had had an early lead in polls. In 1928, the whole...
Aircraft. The unvarnished fact, up to last week, was that about one-third of Mr. Roosevelt's planes "in the process of production" had been ordered with money appropriated last year, that orders for another third had not been closed, that most of the rest were trainers which Army & Navy must have before they can use combat planes. Last week the Army ordered 850 more trainers (from Ryan Aeronautical Co., Beech Aircraft Corp., Vultee Aircraft, Inc.), placed its first big orders for combat aircraft out of 1940 appropriations. The orders: 277 heavy bombers from Boeing Aircraft Co., 410 pursuit...
Mordacal Johnson, president of Howard University and a famous negro leader, electrified the conference with his view that danger of totalitarianism will come from the suppressed Southern states. He claimed that "one third of the nation, living in the South, has a one party dictatorship, inflamed race hatred, and a tribal religion...
Mordacal Johnson, president of Howard University and a famous negro leader, electrified the conference with his view that danger of totalitarianism will come from the suppressed Southern states. He claimed that "one third of the nation, living in the South, has a one party dictatorship, inflamed race hatred, and a tribal religion...