Love the election comments! The presidential election was held on November 5, 1940. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic candidate, won 449 electoral votes; Wendell L. Willkie, the Republican candidate, won 82; Norman Thomas, the Socialist, and Roger W. Babson, the Prohibition, candidates won no electoral votes. FDR was elected to his third term as US President … the only man to ever do so.He wants a birthday list for the family … ironically his birthday was coming up on the 30th of November. Love his P.S. … Bill Huntley is going to drop in … Don’t worry until Thanksgiving … Was she worried? Why, I wonder?Why did Bernice still have the page addressed to Harry?Why did Bernice still have the page addressed to Warren?Frank was using someone else’s envelope … I can’t quite tell whose.
In 1939, my father left the University of Pennsylvania and joined the Marine Corps. He was 22 when on the 13th of February, he enlisted in the US Marines.