Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Student Unionists dispute over the formation of a strong third party, Harvard gets word that Norman Thomas, by now a traditional third-party candidate, will wind up his campaign next month right here in the New Lecture Hall. Mr. Thomas and the Socialist Party are opposing the whole national defense program, including conscription, and are advocating a peaceful transition to state socialism. This is just about the only real opposition the Roosevelt-Willkie foreign policy faces. It is an academic opposition, as well as an unpopular one, and appropriately enough will end its efforts in a very academic...
...Gold Coasters opened the University's straw vote season yesterday with a trial poll, sponsored by the House Committee. Wendell Willkie, Republican nominee for President, finished first by the margin of 110 to 93, or 51.4 per cent to 43.4 per cent for Roosevelt. Norman thomas, Socialist candidate, received 3.75 per cent of the total vote with eight ballots, and Roger Babson and Charles A. Lindbergh both received votes. Over 80 per cent of the House participated in the poll...
Died. Dr. Julian Besteiro, 70, Socialist Speaker of the Spanish Cortes 1931-33 and last Foreign Minister of the Spanish Republican Government, who stayed behind in Madrid to surrender the city to the rebels; in Carmona prison, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for "prolonging...
Aristocrat turned Socialist, Federico Pinedo, Finance Minister in the new Argentine Cabinet, combines progressive economic views with smart financial moves. When he was Finance Minister once before (1933), Pinedo created the Central Bank and the present Foreign Exchange Control, topped off these with a brilliant maneuver: he alchemized a British loan from credit figures on the books of British banks into actual gold metal, shipped the metal to Argentina, turned it into pesos and marked up a profit of millions of pesos in the national treasury...
...Life and Teachings of Leon Trotsky" will be the subject of a speech by Max Shachtman, American translator and editor of Trotsky's works, in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House tonight at 8 o'clock. The talk is sponsored by the Socialist League, Fourth International...