Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GEORGE FOSTER PEABODV...
...George Foster Peabody voted for Eugene Victor Debs, the Socialist nominee for President, as a protest against Taft's subservience to Big Business and Bryan's oratorical fanaticism. Last week, writing to the New York Times, Mr. Peabody urged anyone who could not vote for Hoover or Roosevelt not to vote for Norman Thomas and his diluted Marxism, but for William Z. Foster, the Communist candidate, ''whose success through a large vote really would shock the body politic...
...National Economy League, nation-wide organization to reduce government costs and to foster the fair payment of federal pensions to war veterans, is inaugurating a Harvard branch. At a meeting in Dunster House on Monday night, J. L. Saltonstall '00 spoke informally on the aims of the League and the work it is doing to correct the wrongs of present day bonus exploitation...
...names of four candidates will appear on the ballot: Herbert Hoover, Republican; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat; Norman Thomas, Socialist; and William Z. Foster, Communist. The names of the other three candidates will not appear but a space will be left where those or any other names may be written in. Voters will also be asked to specify what party they favored in the last election, in order to determine the amount of shifting which has taken place. Signatures will be required but will be kept strictly confidential and the ballots will be destroyed as soon as they are counted...
...main purpose of the Republican Club in introducing speakers of prominence to the student body is to foster interest in politics among the undergraduates. This is in accordance with a country-wide league of Republican Clubs in the various colleges who hope that the increase of interest in politics will lead college graduates to enter this field and so elevate its moral tone. The Harvard Republican Club is planning several meetings during late October and early November at which speakers of state and national prominence will address the college...