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Script for the History of the Mock Convention, Finney Chapel, October 26, 1939 (typescript), by Allen M. Bailey ’36.

 

Resolution “to be added to section on Civil rights” of the U.S. Constitution.  Presented by Shelly Halpern for all Wisconsin Delegates.

Telegram (photostat copy), from Senator Chas [Charles] L. McNary (Oregon) to Janet [Janice] Rudd (Chairman, Notifications Committee) May 18, 1940, in which he explains his delay in responding to Rudd’s “wire” concerning his nomination as the presidential candidate by the 1940 Mock Convention delegates.

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