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1940 Election

Roosevelt wins third term

Roosevelt wins third term

By LYLE C. WILSON, United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 1940 (UP) -- President Roosevelt's third term victory over Wendell L. Willkie was building up today toward another electoral college landslide.

World awaits FDR message on British aid

By JOHN E. BEAL, United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 1941 (UP) -- The new Congress met in joint session today to hear President Roosevelt explain how he proposes to make the United States the great "arsenal of democracy."

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