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A BURKE'S PEERAGE OF NEWSPAPER PUNDITRY
The Boston Globe; 7/22/1990; Martin F. Nolan, Globe Staff; 787 words
; ... his Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie. As columnists are wont ... squad includes Anthony Lewis, David Broder, George Frazier ... faced the same decision on Willkie vs. Roosevelt, declared ... paper in America to create Wendell Willkie." When she set sail for ... The first woman to open a ...
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buttons
Yakima Herald-Republic; 3/12/2008; Adriana Janovich; 524 words
; ... between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Wendell Lewis Willkie. Those are probably Gustafson's ... came across as a proud American." Willkie's campaign punched out millions of slogan buttons in rapid response to news items about his opponent in what ...
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History in the faking
The Nelson Mail; 12/15/2004; 379 words
; ... his novel recalls It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, while other novels such as Philip K Dick's The Man ... war platform, defeating Roosevelt, who in fact beat Wendell Willkie. Lindbergh, who in real life made anti-Semitic remarks ...
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Fantasies of a Fascist America
Forward; 10/1/2004; Hoberman, J.; 787 words
; ... Plot Against America" recalls Sinclair Lewis's cautionary "It Can't Happen Here ... The Plot Against America" opens; in Lewis's novel, a demagogic radio preacher ... universe, it is Lindbergh (rather than Wendell Willkie) who is nominated to oppose Franklin ... 850,000 members, including Sinclair ...
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A GOP CONSERVATIVE WITH A TOUCH OF GLAMOR
The Boston Globe; 2/22/1987; David B. Wilson, Globe Staff; 713 words
; ... profile. What could be very good news for Pete du Pont was published ... Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis of Pennsylvania were considering ... Orleans convention. Shades of Wendell Lewis Willkie, Bernard Baruch's "barefoot ... money and influential friends, Willkie won the nomination on ...
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BREAKING THE NEWSROOM.
The American Prospect; 12/20/1999; JANEWAY, MICHAEL; 787 words
; ... dominated the fast-moving news business merger-and-acquisitions ... ground on a depressed news business landscape, became ... decreed a demolition of the news business' wall between ... businessman-evangelist out of Sinclair Lewis by way of Wendell Willkie; his plan was to ...
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Labor doesn't deliver the vote.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)
The Washington Times; 3/29/1996; Beichman, Arnold; 714 words
; ... and as usual failed to deliver. John L. Lewis, the onetime leader of the United Mine ... during World War II. But when he endorsed Wendell L. Willkie, the Republican candidate against President Roosevelt in 1940, the miners ignored Lewis and voted for FDR. Britain, with a far ...
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FROM MORE LIBERAL BEGINNINGS, THE GOP GRADUALLY GAVE WAY TO CONSERVATISM
The Boston Globe; 12/14/2003; David Gergen; 787 words
; ... stomped out, along with his Progressive friends. As Lewis L. Gould argues in this engaging and balanced account ... GOP dictated the party's presidential nominees from Wendell Willkie to Thomas E. Dewey to Dwight Eisenhower. But conservatives ...
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Woooooo, pig! Sooie! The year of the babe.(Nation)(Pruden On Politics)
The Washington Times; 3/27/1998; Pruden, Wesley; 688 words
; The good news, guys, is that 1998 is the year of the ... Is anybody brave enough to imagine Ann Lewis in baby-doll pajamas or Pat Schroeder ... love relationship of FDR and Lucy Mercer, Wendell Willkie and Irita Van Doren, or Thomas Jefferson ...
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GOP Needs Packwood in Budget Fight
Chicago Sun-Times; 7/23/1995; Robert Novak; 566 words
; ... Workers. The UMW has not been involved in Republican presidential politics since its president, John Lewis, backed GOP nominee Wendell Willkie in 1940. But the union has long-standing ties with Specter. Consequently, Specter agents have privately ...
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