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...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...
...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...