Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alliance prod is political action. Last week David Lasser claimed large credit for purging Manhattan's Congressman John J. O'Connor (see p. 72). He cried: "Shall we engage in political activities? My fellow delegates, we are in political activities!'' Whereupon the convention offered its support to Franklin Roosevelt for a third term if he wants one and resolved: "Bread and Progress are of greater concern to us and to the American people as a whole than so-called traditions...
...truce. This year, in return for staying out of Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary, the Federation besought Governor La Toilette's aid for the Progressive candidacy of Representative Thomas Amlie for the Senate. Having earmarked the Senate seat for his faithful Lieutenant Governor Herman Ekern, the Governor supported Mr. Ekern against Mr. Amlie, although he tactfully refrained from making any speeches. Candidate Ekern trounced Candidate Amlie last week after a bitter Progressive primary, in which Amlie also had the support of Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Daniel Hoan. This raised the possibility that when Progressive Ekern brings...
...himself for or against the Nazis. But last week, as events in Europe rolled toward war, the Premier indulged in a sudden burst of loyalty to the Mother Country, personally took to the Assembly floor to oppose a pro-Nazi deputy's motion that South Africa refuse to support Britain if war comes. 'T am still very confident that there will be no war," said the Premier. "No country has the right to drag in South Africa, but all free nations have certain obligations, and these will be faithfully carried...
...France and the only Jew ever to become its Premier. "War has probably been averted," wrote Editor Blum in Le Populaire, "but I feel myself divided between cowardly relief and my sense of shame." Only 36 hours later Leon Blum blazed up and withdrew his Socialist Party's support from the demands which French Premier Edouard Daladier and British Prime Minister Chamberlain had made upon Prague. Although these demands had just been ''unanimously approved" by the whole French Cabinet, three of its members suddenly changed their minds and wrote out their resignations, were with difficulty persuaded...
According to William Chambers '39 in an interview last night the group has no illusions about Curley's record, but feels that it is politically expedient to support...