Word: mattoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialist Party was asked to cooperate in the NRA consumer campaign, to canvass housewives to sign pledge cards. Party spokesmen replied that they were too busy "organizing the working masses under the act'' to divert any of their energies to other purposes. The No. 1 Socialist, Norman Mattoon Thomas, publicly warned that NRA is packed with all manner of new dangers. He fears that the minimum wages in the codes will become maximum wages, that Labor will find itself organized into unions under a Fascist state. Said he: "It may turn out to be just a case...
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Engaged. William Stewart Thomas, 21, son of Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas: and Mary Gabrielle Campbell, 20, Manhattan socialite. Engaged. John Paschall Davis, 24, son of U. S. Ambassador-at-large Norman H. Davis: and Evelyn Ames, 23, socialite daughter of Professor Oakes Ames, Harvard botanist...
...massed one morning last week to welcome home their political hero. Their placards and banners joggled up & down as they lustily sang the "Internationale." When they spied a tall, handsome, white-haired man coming from his train, they rushed forward and engulfed him with their enthusiasm. It was Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for President, back from a five-week transcontinental campaign tour. Nominee Thomas had traveled 10,000 miles through 38 States, made 150 speeches. His campaign slogan: "Repeal Unemployment." His remedy: a $10,000,000,000 bond issue for direct Federal relief. Typical Thomas speech...
...undenominational religious magazine, leftward in its liberalism, The World Tomorrow was founded in 1918 with Norman Mattoon Thomas as first editor. It is becoming a weekly, after 15 years, because "the times in which we are now living demand a sustained emphasis upon religion, pacifism, and socialism, and . . . no other American journal is concentrating upon this combination...