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...Biggest little party was the Socialist Party, the Wailing Wall where genteel liberals could go to decry Republicans and Democrats alike and cast a respectable protest vote against the cacophonies of conscription and capitalism. Their candidate for President: persistent, patient Norman Mattoon Thomas, who, seeing the U. S. drifting into "imperialism abroad and fascism at home," declared: "The only opportunity for escape is a change of the people towards a cooperative commonwealth with machinery harnessed to overcome poverty, and not for the use of militarism." For Vice President: Maynard C. Krueger, University of Chicago economist...
Well fed and thoroughly roasted at a National Press Club dinner in Washington were 1,679 pounds of potential candidates for President: U. S. Attorney General Robert Jackson, 165 Ibs.; New York's Representative Bruce Barton, 174; Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, 195; Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas, 185; Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, 205; Federal Security Administrator Paul Varies McNutt, 195; Michigan's Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 180; Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Holman Jones, 230; Manhattan District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, 150. Each gave a five-minute address (off the record) on "Reasons...
...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...