Word: socialistes
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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...
...four years ago effected his defeat by masking religious bigotry under Dry fanaticism. The Smith speech reverberated through the nation. Republican scouts gleefully reported that it had helped their party in the Midwest. The Republican Press, usually friendly to the Brown Derby, loudly lamented the resurrection of 1928 ghosts. Socialist Norman Thomas expressed a widespread view: "If Al Smith makes two more speeches like that for Roosevelt, then Hoover stands a much better chance to be reelected...
...Manhattan's echoing Pennsylvania Station, some 2,000 young Socialists, mostly college students, massed one morning last week to welcome home their political hero. Their placards and banners joggled up & down as they lustily sang the "Internationale." When they spied a tall, handsome, white-haired man coming from his train, they rushed forward and engulfed him with their enthusiasm. It was Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for President, back from a five-week transcontinental campaign tour. Nominee Thomas had traveled 10,000 miles through 38 States, made 150 speeches. His campaign slogan: "Repeal Unemployment." His remedy...
...Socialist Thomas expects 2,000,000 popular votes next week. If he gets them he will double the party record set by Eugene Victor Debs in 1920. The Literary Digest presidential poll indicates that he will receive slightly less than 5% of the 35 to 40 million votes to be cast Nov. 8. Last week he carried straw polls against Hoover, Roosevelt and Foster at Columbia and New York Universities. Socialist electors will appear on the ballots of 44 States. Last week they were ruled off in Oklahoma because the party had failed to poll a legal sufficiency...
...later Nominee Thomas went stumping to Philadelphia. There for the first time in the campaign he met his running mate, James Hudson Maurer, old-time Socialist, who says of the capitalist system: "It's a nasty stinking wreck." Socialist Thomas was refused a permit to speak in Reyburn Plaza across from City Hall where President Hoover was to make an address three days later, on the ground that it was reserved for "rest and recreation." Officials explained that the President would not need a permit because his appearance would be "a friendly visit of historical importance." Nominee Thomas without...