Word: socialistes
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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...
...enough intellectual candor has 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...
This year, with George Nelson, a 63-year-old Wisconsin farmer, as his running mate, Socialist Thomas has made a more civilized and enlightened campaign than any other candidate. While he preached the doctrine of Socialism in 40 States, he refused to be fooled either by political flummery or about his own prospects. For him it has all been a great lark and in nearly every speech he has said exactly what he thought of his fellow candidates: "Mr. Roosevelt, with the almost hysterical blessing of Labor, is going into office without any mandate. . . . There is not even the absolute...
Only trouble with this type of campaign was that it did not make Socialist votes. Undeterred by the prospect that he would run a poor fourth in the election in spite of being on the ballot in more States (39) than any other third-party aspirant for the White House, indefatigable Mr. Thomas last week sallied forth into New England and New York to provide more free adult education...
...Republican and Democratic Nominees for President travel in special trains, the Prohibitionist in a lower berth, the Socialist in an upper berth, the Communist in a day coach and the Socialist Laborite in a second-hand Chevrolet. The Union Party candidate travels in airplanes. Since he, with Radiopriest Charles E. Coughlin's support, "nominated" himself last June, freckle-faced William Lemke has been to 33 States, has flown some 30,000 miles...