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Late returns in the CRIMSON's presidential poll last night found Wendell Willkie still well out in front of President Roosevelt, with a majority of 640. This was a ten-ballot increase over his 630 lead of Friday night. The final score: Willkie 234b, Roosevelt 1705, Thomas 177, Browder...
Norman Thomas polled 107 votes, getting most of his support from the Law School, the Freshmen, and Leverett, Lowell, and Adams House. Earl Browder was checked on 37 ballots, and Roger Babson got 22 votes, ten of them coming from Leverett...
Blunderbuss Americanism of Ku Klux Klan and vigilante society stamp is cropping out again--this time in the American Legion. With pages of Hearst and Scripps-Howard publicity, the veterans have begun a campaign to keep Browder and Ford off the ballots in the coming election. Their most recent success was yesterday's decision of the New York Supreme Court barring the Communists from that State's election lists. Already ten other states have done this; and in Pittsburgh forty-three Communist petition circulators, including a Harvard graduate, await trial on charges of fraud. The story in the Smoky City...
Veterans and journalists have no reason to fear Browder. His chances of election are little better than those of "No Third Drink" Roger Babson, and the excuses of the group who retracted their names reflect more on themselves than on the Communist Party. Suppression of minority groups even by the American Legion has no excuse. We are not at war and there was no reason for the veterans' squeeze play. Far more dangerous than the Leftist groups, whatever their fondness for vodka, is a powerful organization getting set to protect America in the manner of Hitler's storm troops...
...Every vote for Browder and Ford will serve as an unequivocal warning to candidates of the major parties that we oppose all steps leading to war and fascism," the pamphlet says...