As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

Thomas E. Dewey, governor of New York from 1942 to 1954 and the Republican presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948, was the leader of the moderate wing of the Republican Party in the 1940s and early 1950s, battling conservative Republicans from the Midwest led by Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, known as " Mr. Republican.

Following his re-election, Taft became chairman of the Senate Republican Conference in 1944.

Spencer W. Kimball and Ezra Taft Benson soon became apostles as well, followed by Mark E. Petersen in 1944, but Lee was the senior member of the new generation.

In 1944, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, still in his first term, persuaded Republicans to revive their Steering Committee, and he became its Chairman.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

The most convincing recent measurement of an anaconda was made in eastern Colombia by Roberto Lamon, a petroleum geologist of the Richmond Oil Company, and reported in 1944 by Emmett R. Dunn.

Volume 1, was completed in 1941 and published in 1944.

Volume 1 ( ( Af ) of the seventh edition of Dana's System Of Mineralogy was published in 1944 and Volume 2 ( ( Af ) in 1951 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y..

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

In October 1944, he was appointed state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

Americium was first produced in 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.

The discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.

Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

* Fleming was knighted, as a Knight Bachelor, by king George VI in 1944.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol ( December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944 ) was a French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

Recognizing that there could have been no effective negotiated peace with Hitler, he points out the shocking failure to give support to the anti-Nazi underground, which very nearly eliminated Hitler in 1944.

Similar to the nearly simultaneous discovery of americium ( element 95 ) and curium ( element 96 ) in 1944, the new elements berkelium and californium ( element 98 ) were both produced in 1949 – 1950.

* Deirdre, a famous dancer who was burned nearly completely and whose brain was placed in a faceless but beautiful mechanical body, in C. L. Moore's short story of 1944, " No Woman Born ".

World War II was unkind to Radio Row, and in 1944 the Times lamented that the " one-time repository of nearly everything from a tube socket to a complete radio station " was " bargainless and practically setless, too, due to wartime scarcities " but that it still catered to " tinkerers and engineers " and that an " old spirit " and " magical quality " were still there.

Commander William S. Donaldson III ( 1944 – August 22, 2001 ) was a United States Navy pilot with more than 24 years of experience in nearly all phases of naval aviation and Vietnam War veteran.

The World War II GI Bill, signed into law on June 22, 1944, is said to have had more impact on the American way of life than any law since the Homestead Act nearly a century before.

Between 1941 and 1944, SNCF transported nearly 77, 000 Jews and other Holocaust victims from France to Nazi death camps.

Beginning in 1888, nearly all G. A. C. s have been regularly scheduled, and have occurred biennially, with the sole exception being that the 1944 G. A. C.

It took nearly 5 years, until 1944, for the fund to reach the minimum level for income to be distributed ($ 500, 000 ).

In 1944, during the Second World War, the Germans conducted a house-to-house raid in Beverwijk and Velsen-Noord, seizing nearly 500 persons as hostages to force the murderers of 3 collaborators to surrender themselves.

Anklam was nearly completely destroyed by several bombing raids of the U. S. Airforce in 1943 and 1944 and in the last days of World War II, when the advancing Soviets burned and leveled most of the town.

In 1944, the manuscript was nearly lost in a fire at Lowry's shack in British Columbia.

During the war ( 1944 ) Napier were asked by the Royal Navy to supply a diesel engine for use in their patrol boats, but the Culverin's 720 hp ( 537 kW ) was not nearly enough for their needs.

After the Soviet Baltic Offensive and re-occupation of Estonia in 1944, nearly all the Estonian Swedes fled to Sweden proper.

The IG 37s were manufactured, beginning in late 1944, from carriages of 3. 7 cm PaK 35 / 36s ( and the nearly identical Soviet 3. 7 cm PaK 158 ( r )) and a barrel designed originally for the IG 42 infantry support gun.

The Baltimore entry sold their facility to the Baltimore Orioles of the International League, who renamed it Oriole Park and played there for nearly 30 years before it was destroyed by fire in 1944, a seemingly disastrous event that would actually begin the path toward Baltimore's return to the major leagues 10 years afterward.

By 1944 nearly every employed person was paying federal income taxes ( compared to 10 % in 1940 ).

USS Bunker Hill ( CV-17 ) | USS Bunker Hill is nearly hit by a Japanese bomb during the air attacks of June 19, 1944.

The city was occupied by Finnish troops for nearly three years before it was retaken by Soviet forces on June 28, 1944.

The Battle of Surigao Strait took place here on October 25, 1944 when the " cross the T " incident took place as American battleships fire their guns over Vice Admiral Shoji Nishimura's Southern Force ; nearly all of which, including the battleships Yamashiro and Fusō and others were sunk.

That pledge did not, however, actually eliminate all wartime strikes ; in fact there were nearly as many strikes in 1944 as there had been in 1937.

* Heinkel He P. 1076, A nearly conventional 1944 design, with slightly forward swept wings and double propellers at the front.

In 1944 the Elefants served on the Italian front but were rendered rather ineffective, as their weight of nearly 70 tonnes did not allow them to use most Italian roads and bridges.

* Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett: a German spy in 1944 nearly succeeds in foiling D-Day ;