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Poor's Publishing Co., oldest of them all (1849), went bankrupt in 1933 and had to be rescued by wealthy Paul Talbot Babson, who now owns practically all the stock. The reorganization failed to create any important profits; early this year the company announced it would be unable to pay on its notes. Standard Statistics Co., biggest of them all, began an expansion at the time of the 1929 crash, by 1931 had 1,300 employes, a lease on six floors (plus an option on two more) of a brand-new building and its own printing plant. When public...
...went to Roosevelt. 22,323,801 to Willkie. Norman Thomas' Socialist vote (116,796) was the lowest since 1900, when a Socialist candidate (Eugene Debs) first appeared on the ballot. Communist Earl Browder, barred from some State ballots, got only 49,028, ran behind Prohibitionist Roger Babson, who polled 58,674. Total for all minor-party candidates: 239,772, their worst showing since 1876. Scattered votes were cast but not counted for: Thomas E. Dewey, Bruce Barton, James A. Farley, Sally Rand, Mae West, Al Capone, a flock of others...
Minority Parties. Last week the total votes for minority-party candidates-Communist Browder, Socialist Thomas, Prohibitionist Babson, Socialist-Labor Aiken, National Greenbacker Zahnd (TIME, Oct. 21)-were still unknown, were not likely to be tallied for a fortnight. In Manhattan, Communists called a special convention, went through the motions of disowning Moscow. Reason: the Voorhis Act that requires registration of groups under foreign control...
Franklin D. Roosevelt had made no postelection appeal for unity in his support, perhaps reserving his views for a major occasion. In a telegram to Also-Ran Roger W. Babson, he had welcomed "cooperation" of all citizens. Also-Ran Wendell Willkie now urged unity, but also alert and vigilant opposition...
...Roger Babson (Presidential Candidate of the National Prohibition Party): ". . . The country is headed toward a great...