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...while last night it looked as if the Gottlieb wing would resign in protest against "obstructionist" tactics on the part of their opponents, but after a brief caucus it was decided to remain in the organization pending the referendum which must be completed in eight days
...record of Mr. Thomas permits of not the least doubt of his sincerity and enthusiasm in the cause of liberalism. This year the Socialist party offers the voter's only chance to protest conscription, and to vote for an extension of democracy at home as the best defense of America. It is a protest party, hopeful not of victory, but of rolling up enough votes to bring pressure on the major parties...
Casting a "protest" vote does not appeal to many persons. It is mainly for those who consider a certain abstract principle more important than actual effectiveness. For them, Mr. Thomas is the ideal man; he has often shunned some of labor's most effective partisans because of disagreement over abstract questions...
...member of the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, Billings feels very optimistic about the vote this fall, predicting that "Socialists will probably get the largest vote in the history of the party, as voting Socialist is the only way for an American citizen to register a protest against conscription and intervention...
Producer Zanuck's technical adviser was 80-year-old Mormon George D. Pyper, a former friend of Young, who watched from the sidelines during production. When the 60,000 fans-mostly Mormons-who jammed Salt Lake City for the premiere last month raised no cry of protest over Mormon mistreatment, Fox observers knew Adviser Pyper's salary had been well spent...