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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Debs) first appeared on the ballot. Communist Earl Browder, barred from some State ballots, got only 49,028, ran behind Prohibitionist Roger Babson, who polled 58,674. Total for all minor-party candidates: 239,772, their worst showing since 1876. Scattered votes were cast but not counted for: Thomas E. Dewey, Bruce Barton, James A. Farley, Sally Rand, Mae West, Al Capone, a flock of others...
...President Charles Seymour's espousal of open aid to the Allies, believing it would lead the U. S. into war. Furthermore, he thought Seymour's views were not those of the student body and got up a poll showing 3-to-1 on his side. General Robert E. Wood (Sears, Roebuck) heard of the Yalemen's activities, asked Stuart to visit him. Out of their conversation grew the America First Committee...
...must have known all the time: that the arid area did not have enough water to supply the camp. So the bumbling quartermasters had to start all over at Rolla, Mo., while Guardsmen who should have been transferred to the new camp languished in temporary quarters at Fort Francis E. Warren...
...short the Government-i.e., the people-will foot most of the bill for property damage done by Hitler. However, so far as possible, it will try to postpone payments till after the war, then settle up and start a building boom to relieve postwar unemployment...
...Samuel Spencer, president of Southern Railway System, riding on his railway in Virginia, was killed in a rear-end collision. Last week Ernest E. Morris, president of Southern, was riding on his railroad in Georgia (aboard the Ponce de Leon) when the equalizer bar on a diner up ahead broke. The broken bar hit a frog switch, derailed four Pullmans, hurled the last two official cars off a 20-foot trestle, fractured President Norris' skull and left...