Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should campaign for reelection. When late in droughty August he began making "nonpolitical" campaign speeches newshawks plagued him with demands for the date of his first political speech. "About Jan. 4," he jibed. But last week when New England's birches were yellow, her maples orange, her oaks red, Franklin Roosevelt had lost his coyness about campaigning. He was out on the stump with other politicians, waving his hat at the electorate. His weekdays and nights were full of political speeches, bis Sundays with going to church, his face with smiles, his mouth with greetings to "my old friend...
...Earl Browder decided to play return engagements at his two most successful stands. Of his first visit to Terre Haute he said: "That speech ... I didn't get to make . . . was the most successful I ever made in my life." Back to that Indiana city therefore went the Red Nominee armed with a $1,000 certified check to prove he was not a "vagrant." Again he did not make a highly successful speech because a court refused him an injunction against police interference, because 200 hoodlums with rotten eggs and soft tomatoes blocked his way into the radio station...
Unable to advocate the election of Franklin Roosevelt openly, Red Browder has throughout the campaign done the next best thing: told voters that the election of the Republican Nominee would be a catastrophe. Said he last week in answer to an inquiring comrade: "Advise everybody to vote Communist and if they won't take your advice, tell them that the worst possible thing they can do is to vote for Landon...
Thus did Comrade Browder, whose party polled 102,991 votes four years ago, bring himself to the attention of voters in 32 to 34 States where he hopes to have his Red ticket on the ballot...
History has proven to us time and again that Communism has no place in America. The Red idea appeals to a certain antagonistic and aggressive spirit interred in the bones of every "down-and-outer". Communistic advocates stubbornly insist that it is a desire for a Red government. That is the most serious of their many mistakes. The man is dissatisfied with his economic position in our type of industrial society. He wants to gain a place in the upper brackets. In other words, this type of fellow, the sediment of Bacchus, seeks to satisfy his own interests. This...