Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 9]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 9]

1943

Part 1, Italian women and children in Ethiopia embark for Italy. Shows Emperor Haile Selassie. Part 2, muddy roads and airstrips slow the allied advance in Tunisia. Part 3 shows the construction of a dam and hydro-electric plant in Quebec. Part 4, Mayor La Guardia visits New York City's Stage Door Canteen. Part 5, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek speaks in Madison Square Garden. Personages: Gov. Dewey and Wendell Willkie. Part 6 shows Red Cross workers soliciting funds and performing other peacetime and wartime activities.

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Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003

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La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947

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Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971

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Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944

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Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive and the 1940 Republican nominee for President. Willkie appealed to many convention delegates as the Republican field's only interventionist: although the U.S. remained neutral prior to Pearl Harbor, he favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to support Britain and other Allies. His Democratic opponent, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the 1940...