Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...poor man himself. He used to pick cotton." Joseph W. Martin Jr.: "I do not choose to enter the Cabinet." Chicago's Mayor Kelly: "We have no voice or control over the ballots as they are marked by the voters." Van Wyck Brooks: "Although I am a Socialist I am voting for President Roosevelt this year because I do not feel that Norman Thomas is realistic regarding the present world crisis." Norman Thomas: "It's a phony campaign. . . ." General Hugh S. Johnson: "Mayor LaGuardia says that if he [Wendell Willkie] is a businessman, Fiorello is an eagle...
Several seasons ago the authors of Suzanna wrote a funny play about bundling -The Pursuit of Happiness. In Suzanna they waver uncertainly between pale comments on the folly of socialist hopes in a world which loves to squat on a dime, and rather skittish comedy derived from the idea of a human stud farm...
...trained over the border in Texas and New Mexico). Church buildings still legally belong to the State, and only one priest is allowed to officiate for every 50,000 parishioners. Worst of all from Catholicism's standpoint. Catholic moppets are forbidden religious education, must be sent to socialist-slanted State schools...
...United States enters the war Sidney Hillman will wield the power, according to the Socialist candidate, which "would be a major catastrophe, for Hillman is as complete a Machiavelli as ever walked the earth." Roosevelt if elected, may very well carry labor along with him into a dictatorship. it was forecast, and in this Hillman was described as probably a potent helper...
...Socialist candidates are on 29 of the state ballots, Thomas revealed, having been kept off many slates "by very high-handed methods." A petition with 50 names signed to it for each county is necessary to be put on the ballot...