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At The Precipice
aka
For Fuchs' Sake
1941-1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Henry A. Wallace (Democratic)[1]
1940: Wendell Willkie / Charles L. McNary (Republican)
1945-1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Harry S Truman (Democratic)
1944: Thomas Dewey / Arthur Vandenberg (Republican)
1945-1949: Harry S Truman / Vacant (Democratic) [2]
1949-1951: Harry S Truman / Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Democratic)
1948: Thomas Dewey / Harold Burton (Republican), Ben Laney / Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrat)
1951-1952: Harry S Truman / Joseph C. O'Mahoney (National Emergency)[3]
1952-1952: Harry S Truman / Vacant (National Emergency)
1952-1953: Frank M. Andrews / Vacant (National Emergency) [4]
1953-1957: Walter Judd / Alfred E. Driscoll (Republican) [5]
1952: Frank M. Andrews / Scott W. Lucas (Democratic)
1956 (Nov): election postponed
1957-1965: J. Robert Oppenheimer / Claude Pepper (New Democratic) [6]
1956 (Dec): Alfred E. Driscoll / Various (Republican)
1960: Bourke Hickenlooper / Leslie C. Arends (Republican)
1965-1967: J. Robert Oppenheimer / Helen Gahagan Douglas (New Democratic)
1964: Thomas Dewey / Thomas B. Curtis (Republican)
[1] Scientists throughout the Tube Alloys program were saddened to learn of the death of colleague Klaus Fuchs in April 1943, at the very end of the Birmingham Blitz.
[2] Hiroshima. Niigata. The Hitler Trials. And this was Truman's more quiet term.
[3] The Soviet nuclear program made what historians consider to be two crucial mistakes. Taking until the spring of 1951 - the height of the Korean "police action" - to test. And getting it wrong. "First Lightning" scattered fissile material all across the Kazakh steppe, and convinced western observers that the Soviets would have a working bomb in anywhere from a matter of weeks to a matter of months. But not now. The Americans had the bomb right now.
Frantic mobilization, everywhere.
Moscow. Leningrad. Gorki. Tula. Nikolayev. Odessa. Mariupol.
[4] Secretary Andrews had been primus inter pares in the Truman administration, even before WW3.
ok so you do have to end this with a president named barbara somethingAt The Precipice
aka
For Fuchs' Sake
1941-1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Henry A. Wallace (Democratic)[1]
1940: Wendell Willkie / Charles L. McNary (Republican)
1945-1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Harry S Truman (Democratic)
1944: Thomas Dewey / Arthur Vandenberg (Republican)
1945-1949: Harry S Truman / Vacant (Democratic) [2]
1949-1951: Harry S Truman / Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Democratic)
1948: Thomas Dewey / Harold Burton (Republican), Ben Laney / Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrat)
1951-1952: Harry S Truman / Joseph C. O'Mahoney (National Emergency)[3]
1952-1952: Harry S Truman / Vacant (National Emergency)
1952-1953: Frank M. Andrews / Vacant (National Emergency) [4]
1953-1957: Walter Judd / Alfred E. Driscoll (Republican) [5]
1952: Frank M. Andrews / Scott W. Lucas (Democratic)
1956 (Nov): election postponed
1957-1965: J. Robert Oppenheimer / Claude Pepper (New Democratic) [6]
1956 (Dec): Alfred E. Driscoll / Various (Republican)
1960: Bourke Hickenlooper / Leslie C. Arends (Republican)
1965-1967: J. Robert Oppenheimer / Helen Gahagan Douglas (New Democratic)
1964: Thomas Dewey / Thomas B. Curtis (Republican)
[1] Scientists throughout the Tube Alloys program were saddened to learn of the death of colleague Klaus Fuchs in April 1943, at the very end of the Birmingham Blitz.
[2] Hiroshima. Niigata. The Hitler Trials. And this was Truman's more quiet term.
[3] The Soviet nuclear program made what historians consider to be two crucial mistakes. Taking until the spring of 1951 - the height of the Korean "police action" - to test. And getting it wrong. "First Lightning" scattered fissile material all across the Kazakh steppe, and convinced western observers that the Soviets would have a working bomb in anywhere from a matter of weeks to a matter of months. But not now. The Americans had the bomb right now.
Frantic mobilization, everywhere.
Moscow. Leningrad. Gorki. Tula. Nikolayev. Odessa. Mariupol.
[4] Secretary Andrews had been primus inter pares in the Truman administration, even before WW3.
ok so you do have to end this with a president named barbara something
I mean, they're common enough names that it's not a surprise as such...Barbara Roberts - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
ok so you do have to end this with a president named barbara something
I actually feel like Barbara Ehrenreich might be a fairly good pick - a legacy of both a greater role for Big Science activism and a political scene where connections on the capital-L Left are not only not disqualifying but perhaps actively helpful.Barbara Roberts - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Hmm - IIRC the Football Alliance wasn't considered massively inferior to the League at the time, but even so when the Second Division was created only the top two teams from it played in the First.
The only examples I can think of where it wasn't done in that sort of way are where the previous leagues were regional, though that may well just me being unaware (I do know of one early 1900s one where about a decade later the First Division was mainly originally second tier sides and vice versa).
That said, IIRC rugby league did historically have "one big division" at least at times, so maybe that's an example to look at?