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...Workers party is not to be confused with the Socialist party, whose candidate is fair-haired Norman Thomas, Princeton graduate, one-time minister. The Socialist platform is virtually identical with the Communist platform except for the revolutionary plank. Because Socialists do not favor overthrowing the existing government, Communists lump Socialists with Democrats and Republicans as "tools of Capital...
...Candidate Lowden's hopes for a G. O. P. Campaign plank favoring the equalization-fee type of farm relief were further submerged last week by the announcement that Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, anti-McNary-Haugen man, is to be chairman of the Platform Committee at Kansas City...
...platform which was adopted included a plank declaring prohibition was not a partisan issue and that law enforcement was necessary. A wet plank asking for the repeal of the Volstead Act was voted down 801 to 291. Further planks called for the prohibition of injunctions, and condemned American intervention in Nicaragua on behalf of American capitalists. A plank introduced by a Porto Rican delegate calling for independence for Porto Rico was defeated without a record vote...
...sharp contest between Governor Alfred E. Smith and former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, and adoption of a plank favoring American intrance into the League of Nations and World Court without reservation, featured the first session of the mock Democratic convention held last night in the New Lecture Hall. The convention will come to order tonight at 7.30 o'clock, and finish its work of adopting a platform and nominating candidates...
About 500 students took part as delegates, and more are expected tonight. The first business this evening will be the completion of the platform, and a spirited contest over the prohibition plank is anticipated. After the adoption of the platform, the third ballot for President will be taken...