Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is a Forgotten Man and if he will not forgive his forgetter, perhaps he will not trust his new champions. On the basis of this year's straw polls, about 1,700,000 protest votes are to be cast for Socialist Norman Thomas. Undoubtedly many an alleged Forgotten Man will, like Henry Ford, have failed to register or is otherwise ineligible to vote. It is also true that the forces against a Change are usually quietest when the likelihood of Change is most imminent. As of last week the election of 1932 looked like a narrower thing than...
Fifty-two officers of instruction in the University favor the election of Norman Thomas as president of the United States, it was announced yesterday by the Committee of Harvard Teachers for Norman Thomas, which has been conducting a poll of men teaching at Harvard to determine the extent of the support for the Socialist ticket...
...Norman Renaissance," Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall...
...most striking fact revealed by the straw vote is the strength of the Socialist candidate. Norman Thomas doubtless possesses a personality which appeals to many college men, but the Socialist vote is more than a personal tribute to a popular character. Nor is it to be explained as a mere protest against the politicians in power during the depression. The size of the vote for Hoover shows that the unreflecting protest vote in Harvard is inconsiderable. The conclusion seems unescapable that the large vote for Thomas is the sign of an extraordinary increase of independent thinking among the students...
...Roosevelt should have little difficulty in winning the coming Presidential election", said Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, in an interview yesterday with the CRIMSON. "And I say this in spite of the results of the many straw votes in various colleges throughout the country, particularly at Harvard, which have given Hoover such a large plurality...