In 1929, Willkie became a legal counsel for the New York-based Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, which provided electrical power to customers in eleven states.

Willkie was the CEO of the Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, which provided electrical power to customers in eleven states.

The key moments came when the delegations of large states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York left Dewey and Vandenberg and switched to Willkie, giving him the victory on the sixth ballot.

Willkie was born in Elwood, Indiana, the son of Herman Willkie, a German immigrant from Aschersleben whose family name originally was " Willcke ", and his wife Henrietta Trisch.

Willkie graduated from Elwood High School, and four years later in 1913 earned a BA from Indiana University, where he belonged to Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

In 1919 Willkie married Edith Wilk ( no relation ), a librarian from Rushville, Indiana.

Wendell Willkie receives official notification of the Republican presidential nomination at a ceremony in Elwood, Indiana, August 17, 1940.

Convention chairman Joe Martin went to Elwood, Indiana, to inform Willkie officially of the nomination, as was then the custom.

In the 1944 presidential election Willkie again sought the Republican nomination, choosing his wife's hometown, Rushville, Indiana, as his campaign headquarters.

Wendell Willkie is buried in East Hill Cemetery, Rushville, Indiana.

A large dorm complex at Indiana University Bloomington is named after him, and for several decades was home to the Willkie Co-op, an experimental housing cooperative that emphasized student operation of dormitory service.

Willkie, a native of Indiana and a former Democrat who had supported Franklin Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, was considered an improbable choice.

* Philip Willkie, Indiana politician and businessman

He became friends with future Governor of Indiana Paul V. McNutt, future presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie, and several other men who later became influential in the state.

* 1939 – Wendell Willkie of Indiana, before running for President in the 1940 election

In 1909, McNutt entered Indiana University where he was active in campus politics, acted in student theater productions and was a close friend of Wendell Willkie, future Republican candidate for president of the United States who, like McNutt, was then a Democrat.

Ironically, Roosevelt's opponent in 1940 was McNutt's Indiana University classmate Wendell Willkie, now a Republican.

Born Lewis Wendell Willkie in Elwood, Indiana, he was the son of Herman Willkie, a German immigrant from Aschersleben, and Henrietta Tisch.

In the North, the cities over 100, 000 gave Roosevelt 60 % of their votes, while the rest of the North favored Willkie by 52 %.

In the 1930s he was an early supporter of the Republican presidential nominees, Alf Landon of Kansas in 1936, and Wendell Willkie in 1940.

* 1892 – Wendell Willkie, American politician ( d. 1944 )

He had worked on Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential campaigns, including the 1940 presidential election against Wendell Willkie.

After losing to President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 US election, Republican candidate Wendell Willkie set out to travel the world in service to the US.

During his visit to China, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and Willkie took an interest in each other.

According to recollections by publisher Gardner Cowles, Willkie's visit to China involved an episode where Soong May-ling seduced Willkie and took him to one of her hideaway apartments in Chungking.

At 4am, Cowles noted " a very buoyant Willkie appeared, cocky as a young college student after a successful night with a girl.

" But the next day, Willkie had Cowles tell Madame she could not travel to Washington with him after all.

I would rule the Orient and Wendell would rule the Western world .” She asked that he use whatever means necessary to secure the Republican nomination for Willkie, even if it required using China's wealth.

In 1974, when a shorter version of the story appeared, a suit was brought on behalf of Mayling, and Cowles testified ( perhaps to protect Wilkie ) that the affair was “ impossible .” Taylor speculates that Willkie, who had several drinks when he talked to Cowles, had exaggerated or misled his young friend who had imagined the rest.

Wendell Lewis Willkie (; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944 ) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for president in 1940.

Willkie, an internationalist, needed the votes of the large isolationist element, so he waffled on the bitterly debated issue of America's role in World War II, losing support from both sides.

Afterward, Roosevelt found Willkie to be compatible politically with his plans and brought him aboard as an informal ambassador-at-large.

Willkie criss-crossed the globe on the former army bomber The Gulliver, bringing home a vision of " One World " freed from imperialism and colonialism.

He was named Lewis Wendell Willkie, but among his friends and family he was called by his middle name, Wendell.

The following year, when the U. S. entered World War I, Willkie enlisted in the Army.

An Army clerk accidentally transposed his first and middle names, and Willkie did not correct it, thereafter calling himself Wendell Lewis Willkie.

After his discharge, Willkie worked as a corporate lawyer for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio.

The Kirkintilloch Burning Disaster in 1937 fulfilled the second part of the prophecy, when the bodies of ten victims were carried by rail to Achill.

The boule coordinated the activities of the various boards and magistrates that carried out the administrative functions of Athens and provided from its own membership randomly selected boards of ten responsible for areas ranging from naval affairs to religious observances.

All of Job's possessions are destroyed: 500 yoke of oxen and 500 donkeys carried off by Sabeans ; 7, 000 sheep burned up by ' The fire of God which fell from the sky '; 3, 000 camels stolen by the Chaldeans ; and the house of the firstborn destroyed by a mighty wind, killing Job's ten children.

National population census are carried out in Argentina roughly every ten years, the last one being performed on October 27, 2010.

It is carried out every ten years, the last one being 9 August 2011.

National population censuses are carried out in Chile every ten years by the INE ( Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas, or National Statistics Institute ), the last one being in 2012.

It is now carried out every ten years by the Institutul Naţional de Statistică ( INSSE ).

The British built a series of destroyers ( the A Class to I Class ) which were about 1, 400 tons standard displacement, had four guns and eight torpedo tubes ; the American Benson class of 1938 similar in size, but carried five guns and ten torpedo tubes.

The first British frigates carried 28 guns including an upper deck battery of twenty-four 9-pounder guns ( the remaining four smaller guns were carried on the quarter deck ) but soon developed into fifth-rate ships of 32 or 36 guns including an upper deck battery of twenty-six 12-pounder guns, with the remaining six or ten smaller guns carried on the quarter deck and forecastle.

From around 1778, a larger " heavy " frigate was developed with a main battery of twenty-six or twenty-eight 18-pounder guns ( again with the remaining ten smaller guns carried on the quarter deck and forecastle ).

In 1950, Leonard W. Ferguson carried out an analysis of political values using ten scales measuring attitudes toward:

Tests carried out on the vertical stabilizers from the accident aircraft, and from another similar aircraft, found that the strength of the composite material had not been compromised, and the NTSB concluded that the material had failed because it had been stressed beyond its design limit, despite ten previous recorded incidents where A300 tail fins had been stressed beyond their design limitation in which none resulted in the separation of the vertical stabilizer in-flight.

Emerging ten minutes later and removing the suits, they are both suffering from severe radiation poisoning and are carried to their quarters where the doctor attends to them.

A hand rosary is a decade in a complete loop, with one bead separated from ten other beads, this is meant to be carried while walking or running, so as not to entangle the larger type.

Each boat had four to ten lines, extending from tall poles hung outboard when fishing ; each line carried several hooks, with heavy lead sinkers and spoons or baits as lures.

Communal Jewish worship can be carried out wherever ten Jews ( a minyan ) assemble.

Worship can also be carried out alone or with fewer than ten people assembled together.

Based on this, Schimank gives a list of ten experiments which he considers likely to have been carried out at Regensburg.

The results of the numerous and often large-scale excavations carried out within the area of the medieval town in the past ten years appear to have confirmed this statement.

The ten bands had four leaders each, and the forty-four men ( Council of Forty-Four ) met to deliberate at regular tribal gatherings, centered around the Sun Dance In addition, they developed the ceremony of the Sacred Arrows, which they carried when they waged tribal-level war.

For example, before the telephone privatisation, to get a new line it was not unusual to wait more than ten years, and apartments with telephone lines carried a big premium in the market.

Members of the gang also carried out a bombing mission on the Falls Road that killed a Catholic boy of ten years on 10 April 1977.