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...Washington Times-Herald reported that Democrats were trying to get Carl Sandburg to run against Michigan's Congressman Clare E. Hoffman in the next Congressional election...
Selected by a preliminary competition, the 10 contestants were allowed an almost unrestricted choice of subjects. Boysen delivered a selection from Clemence Dane, while Stearns recited "The Last Lesson," a short story by Daudet, and Weinberg offered a portion of "The People, Yes," by Carl Sandburg...
There is a growing, but as yet little-advertised, campaign to persuade the great American poet, Carl Sandburg, to run for Congress against the reactionary Clare Hoffman of Michigan. Mr. Sandburg hasn't committed himself one way or another on his candidacy, though the pressure for him to decide in the affirmative is fortunately increasing daily. If such a political contest were to take place, it would dramatically underline the paradox of the two different kinds of democracy for which Americans are fighting today. On the one hand would be Carl Sandburg representing the forces believing in progressive, twentieth-century...
...defeat such an anti-democrat as Hoffman, Michigan fortunately has his spectacular opposite. Carl Sandburg, dirt farmer, biographer of Lincoln, student of government, and poet of the people, would be a candidate most likely of ending Hoffman's infamous career. A man with tremendous perspective, one of America's greatest humanitarians, Carl Sandburg might be refused by some because of his lack of political experience. But it is not bargaining politicians that we want in our next Congress, rather it is far-seeing statesmen and born democrats who will be qualified to help guide us through the rest...
Poet Carl Sandburg, authority on Lincoln, authoritatively scotched a Rome radio tale that Italian Patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi had been asked to lead Union troops in the Civil War. The poet labeled it "just one more of those goofy affairs that come out of Italy...