Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soap-box rabble rouser but a kindly, even-spoken man, Earl Browder does a good patient job among earnest Party workers, achieves publicity for his cause only by maneuvering into headline situa tions. Not altogether undeserved was his arrest as a vagrant. During the campaign he has traveled 26,000 miles, mostly in day coaches, shuttling about the country, visiting 26 States. Last week, while Negro James W. Ford, Communist Vice-Presidential Nominee, was hopping about to Nashville, Richmond, Durham, Harlem, Earl Browder decided to play return engagements at his two most successful stands. Of his first visit to Terre...
Unable to advocate the election of Franklin Roosevelt openly, Red Browder has throughout the campaign done the next best thing: told voters that the election of the Republican Nominee would be a catastrophe. Said he last week in answer to an inquiring comrade: "Advise everybody to vote Communist and if they won't take your advice, tell them that the worst possible thing they can do is to vote for Landon...
...coast, since July 1 has averaged two speeches a day and spent most of his nights in Pullman upper berths, although enough intellectual candor has gone into his speeches to debunk the inflated bombast of U. S. politics, this onetime Presbyterian minister has made much less impression in this campaign than he did in 1932. That year, because many a thoughtful citizen refused to have either Hoover or Roosevelt, the Socialist Party, with Norman Thomas heading its ticket, rolled up 884.741 votes its best record since Eugene Debs nearly touched the million mark...
This year, with George Nelson, a 63-year-old Wisconsin farmer, as his running mate, Socialist Thomas has made a more civilized and enlightened campaign than any other candidate. While he preached the doctrine of Socialism in 40 States, he refused to be fooled either by political flummery or about his own prospects. For him it has all been a great lark and in nearly every speech he has said exactly what he thought of his fellow candidates: "Mr. Roosevelt, with the almost hysterical blessing of Labor, is going into office without any mandate. . . . There is not even the absolute...
Only trouble with this type of campaign was that it did not make Socialist votes. Undeterred by the prospect that he would run a poor fourth in the election in spite of being on the ballot in more States (39) than any other third-party aspirant for the White House, indefatigable Mr. Thomas last week sallied forth into New England and New York to provide more free adult education...