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...wore the uniform of an American soldier, sailor or marine, who fails to cast his ballot for one Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President of these United States of America -every day that fellow stays out of an insane asylum he is away from home. Personally, I would walk on my hands & knees from Memphis to Washington, D. C., just for the opportunity of making known, in my very limited way, my admiration, adoration, and adherence to the policies of the World's Greatest Human Being- Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

When North Dakota's bald, freckled Representative William Lemke last June announced simultaneously the birth of the Union Party and his own selection as its candidate for President, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence of Pennsylvania promptly moved to keep him off that State's ballot by having his henchmen file petitions pre-empting the Union Party name. Last week Candidate Lemke, whose principal backer is radiorating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Lemke Entries | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich, (see p. 61), got on Pennsylvania's ballot anyway when his supporters filed petitions qualifying him as candidate of the "Royal Oak" Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Lemke Entries | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Whereas the 200 members of the Families' assembly used to vote in clannish secrecy, it seemed probable last week that a great number of ihe 40,000 newly eligible stockholders would accept their invitations to next month's assembly to ballot in the Bank's most publicized Assembly. All the great rooms in the Bank of France could not hold them and Bank officials last week seriously considered hiring an open-air stadium for the Bank meeting. Last week the Bank announced that stockholders must give three weeks' notice of their intention to vote, must vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: 40,000 Bankers | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...Continent is strongest, lest it overwhelm her in the end. Today an important Cabinet faction close to Squire Baldwin holds that "the strongest European power" is now not any one country but the international Socialist-Communist forces of the "Popular Front" which have taken both France and Spain by ballot and are trying in a dozen countries for more sweeping victories. Britons knew what to think last week when, although there has been no battle in Madrid, 733 political opponents of the Government were revealed to have been killed by the Red militia and the tobacco, oil and other important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Republic v. The Republic | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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