Word: socialistics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialist: for President, Norman Thomas, 63 (for the sixth time) ; for Vice President, Tucker P. Smith, professor of economics at Michigan's Olivet College. Advocating public ownership of natural resources, basic industries and credit, the Socialists denounced Henry Wallace as "an apologist for the slave state of Russia and the preacher of peace by blind appeasement." The party polled 884,000 votes in 1932, dropped...
...Socialist Labor: for president, Edward A. Teichert, 44, a Greensburg, Pa. steelworker; for Vice President, Stephen Emery, 40, a Manhattan subway dispatcher. The party has run candidates for President since 1892, polled 45,000 votes in 1944. It advocates Marxism, opposes Wallace because he "stands for the preservation of the capitalist system...
...Socialist Worker: for President, Farrell Dobbs, 41, onetime organizer for the A.F.L. Teamsters' Union; for Vice President, Dr. Grace Carlson, 41, onetime assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota and the wife of a St. Paul lawyer. A Trotskyist group organized in 1928 when its leaders were expelled from the Communist Party, it is running a presidential ticket for the first time. In 1941, Dobbs, Mrs. Carlson and 16 other party members were convicted and sent to jail for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the Government. They do not really advocate such rebellion, says Mrs. Carlson...
Norman Thomas, inveterate Socialist candidate for President, distributed some verbal presents to his rivals this week...
Zisling of the left-wing Socialist United Workers Party objected to the inclusion of any profession of religious faith. Arguments were brief, but warm...