Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving back at his headquarters in Manhattan last week, the least ambitious of all third-party candidates announced that the election was "in the bag." not for himself but for Franklin D. Roosevelt. By this piece of intellectual honesty Socialist Norman Thomas made a fool both of himself and of his opponents...
...gone into his speeches to debunk the inflated bombast of U. S. politics, this onetime Presbyterian minister has made much less impression in this campaign than he did in 1932. That year, because many a thoughtful citizen refused to have either Hoover or Roosevelt, the Socialist Party, with Norman Thomas heading its ticket, rolled up 884.741 votes its best record since Eugene Debs nearly touched the million mark...
Said Socialist Nominee Norman Thomas who happened to be in Philadelphia next day: "It seems incredible that 1,300 people would pay $100 for a $2.50 dinner to listen to Jim Farley and watch him eat. I paid 2? for a newspaper this morning and saw a picture of Farley eating -that was enough...
Iron Men (by Francis Gallagher; Norman Bel Geddes, producer) presents a scene never before approximated for verisimilitude in the theatre-the uppermost steel skeleton of a skyscraper under construction. Not content with that, Designer-Producer Bel Geddes has put his scene into operation. A giant crane looming up into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism...
Next Sunday, October 25, Harvard students will have an opportunity to hear Norman Thomas, socialist candidate for President and perhaps America's most outstanding radical leader, when he speaks in Ford Hall in Boston at 3 o'clock...