Word: mattoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue coat and grey trousers were wrinkled but he wore a necktie. His hair, above a high intellectual forehead, was a silky grey but his pale blue eyes were young, fresh, benign. His manner with the masses was one of studied informality. Yet he was their particular idol, Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for the Presidency...
...Mattoon. Ill., a theatre manager announced a performance for children. Admission: an egg apiece, to be given to charity. The theatre held 1,132, but 2,000 children came. Infuriated latecomers threw eggs at the manager, at passersby, at policemen. The manager put on a second, free show...
Though the Constitution requires a candidate for Congress to reside only within the State to be represented, political custom requires him also to live within his Congressional district. Last week Norman Mattoon Thomas, 1928 Socialist Nominee for President, 1929 Socialist Nominee for Mayor of New York, shocked orthodox politicians when he, a resident of Manhattan, accepted the Socialist nomination for the House from the 6th New York Congressional district in Brooklyn...
First thing against her in her southern campaign was the weather. Dense fog, icy roads kept many from her meetings in Mattoon After, leaving a tiny audience at Olney, she found that the flooding Wabash had made her motor useless, had stopped railway passenger service to Newton, her next stop. She borrowed a section handcar, started off over the rails. Overtaken by a freight train, she and her party hustled the handcar off the tracks clambered into the caboose, huddled around a small wood-stove with the conductor and brakeman until they trundled into Newton...