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Celebrated for arresting and jailing Communist Presidential Nominee Earl Browder when he attempted to campaign last autumn in Terre Haute, Ind. (TIME, Oct. 12, 1936), Mayor Sam Beecher and his wife, Terre Haute's controller, were indicted on charges of misfeasance, re-leased on $2,500 bond each...
...Terre Haute, Ind., for the sake of whose vote Communist Candidate Earl Browder endured a night in jail and a pelting with eggs, cast 62 votes for the Communist ticket...
...Communist Party, whose single stronghold is New York City, lost its place on New York State's ballot by failing to roll up the required 50,000 votes for its candidate for Governor. The Red President nominee, Earl Browder, ran 5,000 votes behind his gubernatorial ticket-mate in the State. His national total was some 57,000, down 46,000 from...
...Pink fadeouts there were comforting extenuations. Nominee Browder had campaigned far more strenuously against Alf Landon than for himself, persuading many a Red that he might best serve his cause by a vote for Roosevelt. Nominee Thomas, who got a large non-Socialist protest vote in 1932, could reasonably conclude that the electorate this year loved him not less, but Franklin Roosevelt more. In addition, his Party's right wing split off, merged last summer with New York State's American Labor Party. Neither Communists nor Socialists were displeased at losing strength to this new faction, under whose...
...labor unions to waste more of their good money on the Roosevelt campaign. Jim Farley has done a beautiful job. . . . Governor Landon is a nice fellow who is over his head. . . . Colonel Knox is overstating his case so consistently that he is wrong even when he is right. . . . Browder and the Communists are kissing Roosevelt. . . . Lemke is running for President with three Messiahs on his shoulders...