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During World War II Hughes leveraged political connections in Washington to obtain rights for TWA to serve Europe, making it the only U.S. carrier with a combination of domestic and transatlantic routes. [78] After the announcement of the Boeing 707, Hughes opted to pursue a more advanced jet aircraft for TWA and approached Convair in late 1954.
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Hiram Johnson, the governor of California who had been Roosevelt's running mate in 1912, did endorse and speak for Hughes. However Johnson did not mobilize the Progressive faction and it saw Wilson as more of a true progressive. Wilson carried California by 3,773 votes (0.3%) and with it the Electoral College and the presidency. [23] [24]
The American victorious military effort was strongly supported by civilians on the home front, who provided the military personnel, the munitions, the money, and the morale to fight the war to victory. World War II cost the United States an estimated $296 billion in 1945 dollars, and at their highest in 1945, military expenditures comprised 38% ...
Edward Stettinius to war's ending a WW2; Secretary of the Interior. Harold Ickes throughout the war; Secretary of Commerce. Jesse H. Jones pre-war to June 1945; Henry A. Wallace to war's end; Secretary of the Treasury. Henry Morgenthau Jr. pre-war to June 1945; Fred M. Vinson to war's end; Secretary of Labor. Frances Perkins pre-war to June ...
Miller, Sally M., and Daniel A. Cornford eds. American Labor in the Era of World War II (1995), essays by historians, mostly on California; Lichtenstein, Nelson. Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (2003) Wynn, Neil A. The Afro-American and the Second World War (1977) Vatter, Howard. The U.S. Economy in World War II Columbia University ...
With television's growing popularity, there was a decline in movie revenues. With the difficulties of World War II now in the past, the decade gave birth to what might be referred to as "the suburban dream" (the typical 1950s housewife would eventually become a universally recognised stereotype).
Charles Evans Hughes (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American politician, academic, and jurist who served as the 11th chief justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941. A member of the Republican Party , he previously was the 36th governor of New York (1907–1910), an associate justice of the Supreme Court (1910–1916), and ...