Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American ReformVintage Books, 1956 - 503 pages |
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... Willkie , then head of the Commonwealth & Southern power company , had proved himself one of the most dangerous critics of the New Deal . When he was nominated for the Presidency in 1940 , he had seemed to most liberals just a ...
... Willkie , then head of the Commonwealth & Southern power company , had proved himself one of the most dangerous critics of the New Deal . When he was nominated for the Presidency in 1940 , he had seemed to most liberals just a ...
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... Willkie brought out his book One World . The volume repeated his previous arguments with a wealth of human , moving detail , but it also added other vigorous points . In speaking of the Soviet Union , Willkie told the United States that ...
... Willkie brought out his book One World . The volume repeated his previous arguments with a wealth of human , moving detail , but it also added other vigorous points . In speaking of the Soviet Union , Willkie told the United States that ...
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... Willkie had caught up the liberal yearnings , and he had said , with all the firmness of the man of affairs : " Now ! " Henceforth Wendell Willkie was no simple , barefoot Wall Street law- yer . He was , to use Samuel Grafton's ...
... Willkie had caught up the liberal yearnings , and he had said , with all the firmness of the man of affairs : " Now ! " Henceforth Wendell Willkie was no simple , barefoot Wall Street law- yer . He was , to use Samuel Grafton's ...
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Bejabers Im Worth Me Thousands 3 | 3 |
Thrust from the | 9 |
From the Bottom Up | 24 |
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