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...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...
...quite a bit of inside dope in my line, and I predict a photo finish. So long. I've got to go see a man about the north end of a south bound Percheron." Hu Flung Huey's Big Four Roosevelt over Willkie Saltonstall over Dever Harvard over Yale Babson over my dead body