Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eugene Victor Debs, the Socialist nominee for President, as a protest against Taft's subservience to Big Business and Bryan's oratorical fanaticism. Last week, writing to the New York Times, Mr. Peabody urged anyone who could not vote for Hoover or Roosevelt not to vote for Norman Thomas and his diluted Marxism, but for William Z. Foster, the Communist candidate, ''whose success through a large vote really would shock the body politic...
...lost a milking contest in Shenandoah, Iowa to Earl May, operator of radio station KFNF, owned by Henry ("Himself") Field, Republican nominee for Senator. The loser's plea: "The trick is to get a lot of foam in the milk so the pop bottle will fill up quickly." Norman B. Collins, president of Security Bank and Second Security Bank of Chicago, and his wife were kidnapped in Wilmette (Chicago suburb) by five men in a black sedan who demanded $100,000 ransom. Arguing with their captors as they drove hither & yon, Mr. & Mrs. Collins got the demand down...
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY-Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall-Little, Brown...
...names of four candidates will appear on the ballot: Herbert Hoover, Republican; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat; Norman Thomas, Socialist; and William Z. Foster, Communist. The names of the other three candidates will not appear but a space will be left where those or any other names may be written in. Voters will also be asked to specify what party they favored in the last election, in order to determine the amount of shifting which has taken place. Signatures will be required but will be kept strictly confidential and the ballots will be destroyed as soon as they are counted...
Political clubs representing the two major parties have been active since the opening of College, and an organization devoted to the interests of Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate, is in process of formation. Several speakers of national repute have already been brought to Cambridge and others will be at Harvard between now and election day. Representatives of both major parties are expected to address the Freshmen at the Union under the auspices of the political clubs and the Union Committee. Although no torch-light parades or other features of former presidential campaigns at Harvard have been planned...