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As the American people nervously watch this year’s presidential campaign descend into a rant of name calling and outright crudity that would be inappropriate in a saloon, it might be wise to pause and look back 75 years to a remarkable partnership between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie, opposing candidates in the 1940 election.
Autres informations. Wendell Lewis Willkie, né à Elwood (Indiana) le 18 février 1892 et mort à New York le 8 octobre 1944, est un avocat et homme politique américain, membre du Parti démocrate puis du Parti républicain. Il est le candidat républicain à la présidence des États-Unis en 1940.
30 de mar. de 2020 · Zipp’s new book, “The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World,” chronicles a game-changing international trip Willkie took in 1942 as an informal envoy to Roosevelt and describes his resulting “one world” idea: That democratic, anti-imperial international cooperation, rather than nationalism and isolationism, would help position the U.S. as a true leader of the ...
10 de sept. de 2018 · Wendell Willkie was born in Elwood, Indiana, on February 18, 1892. Lewis stresses his identity as a “Forty-Eighter descendant,” an heir to the wave of German liberals who fled Europe when the ...
15 de nov. de 2020 · Wendell Willkie, born in 1892 and raised in a modest household in Elwood, Indiana, had a vibrant journey on his way to the Republican convention in 1940. From working in the Caribbean where first-hand experience of plantations catalysed his anti-imperialist fervour, to removing the Ku Klux Klan from a school board whilst serving as an attorney, Willkie was not a career politician.
Wendell Willkie) Willkie e Lilienthal negoziarono per un anno, con Willkie che richiedeva 88 milioni di dollari per le proprietà della C&S nei dintorni della valle del Tennessee e la TVA che ne offriva 55. Dopo un'ultima sconfitta legale per la C&S alla Corte suprema nel gennaio del 1939, le negoziazioni si fecero più veloci, e l'uno febbraio dello stesso anno la C&S vendette il tutto per 78 ...
August 17, 1940. The ceremony of an acceptance speech is a tradition of our pioneer past—before the days of rapid communication. You all know that I accepted at Philadelphia the nomination of the Republican party for President of the United States. But I take pride in the traditions and not in change for the mere sake of overthrowing precedents.
