Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Alfred M. Landon, Republican nominee, received 1016 undergraduate ballots, while President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 was the choice of 995 students. Norman Thomas, Socialist, received 72, Earl Browder, Communist, 35, William Lemke, Union party candidate, 9, and Colvin, Prohibitionist...
Yesterday's poll figures compared with figures in the 1932 straw vote reveal that while the Republican vote has fallen off, almost the entire large Socialist vote of four years ago has been transferred to Roosevelt. Then, Roosevelt and Norman Thomas ranneck and neck, less than 10 votes apart, while this year Thomas polled only about .03% of the total vote in the University. The Communist vote has increased since 1932 but is still insignificant compared with the total number of ballots cast. In a 1934 vote on New Deal policies, the University voted against Roosevelt by an approximate margin...
...wrote on it that his Cabinet would drop the proletariat-pampering clause, and passed it to M. Reynaud There was much bouncing of the bill back and forth between Chamber and Senate but the final result was straight defeat of the Communists and refusal by Parliament to place in Socialist Blum's hands any wide financial powers. His prestige suffered sorely. Once he bleated, "I know that I am not a weak man and that I do not lack courage." He was bolstered by a vote of "affection and confidence" wangled through the Chamber by its radicals. Conservatives...
Astonishingly the Fascist Dictator, after cogitating with Italian economists in closest secrecy for a week, adopted exactly the same procedure as had the Socialist French Premier. Il Duce decreed 40% reduction in the value of the lira, bringing it to approximately 19 lire per dollar, and he also sweepingly reduced Italian import duties. Thus Fascist Italy, ordinarily considered a super-Nationalist State, was the first to follow the French lead to tariff appeasement and a better economic world. To Washington and to London was presented a supreme opportunity to join in for international economic peace and increasingly Free Trade...
...with the assistance of powerful narcotics. His best portrait is of his friend Talaat Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey, a gentle cynic who, when pressed about the Armenian question, would suggest that it was solved since there were no Armenians left. Anxious to have Turkey represented at an international Socialist Congress, Talaat was embarrassed to find that there were no Turkish Socialists either. He appointed three members of parliament as Socialists ad hoc, teased them thereafter about their synthetic extremism...