POLITICS
Politics Notes from Here ond There About Solons and Citizens LBy 'OBSERVERS "FRIDAY"BANNED The new magazine "Friday," which carried articles on the killing of a union official's wife at...
...who indulge In wishful thinking...
...The 64 year old Massachusetts statistician declared at the Prohibitionists' 19th national convention: "Neither of the big parties will get this country out of the present mess...
...Farley knows a lot of politicians and he ts an expert in political crystal gazing on occasions when even nearsighted persons can read without the aid of a crystal, but when he sits in Washington, D. C, and presumes to read the handwriting on St...
...A modern sky fleet of 3,000 ships with 15.000 pilots to handle the controls will cost approximately $700,000.-000...
...The air force is the most expensive of all, he Insists...
...Still arriving from Bavaria via Siberia Is 'News from Germany,' a 64-page fortnightly with which Is usually Included texts of speeches by Adolf Hitler and pro-Nazi letters from unknown Americans...
...E. Hofer and Sons of Portland Ore., a propaganda distributing outfit that was exposed as receiving a big private utility subsidy, is grinding out bundles of literature attacking the TVA, big public ownership development in Tennessee valley...
...Full of shrill imprecations and patent lies, 'News from Qermany' is exactly what Americans can use to confirm their worst suspicions about the Third Reich...
...Though defensive in tone, the argument for Hitlerism is maintained on a high plane...
...said former Pres...
...The New Prohibition Party, therefore, is in a position to serve as such a coalition third party...
...It may suit the purposes of the Democratic organization in St...
...REPUBLICAN WOMEN The National Federation of Republican Women's Clubs claims to have a national membership of 200,000...
...Anyhow, I am not old enough to be vice-prseident...
...A man ought to be over 60 to hold that office...
...Nazi relations with organized religion are described as serene...
...McDonough's election, but if they were evident at all in the campaign the Union Advocate failed to mark that fact...
...The Minnesota Union Advocate of St...
...Wheeler of Montana recently: "I would rather be a senator from Montana than vice-president of the United States...
...Said Sen...
...Un-censored," bulletin edited by a group of New York Liberals, declares: "Since the outbreak of the war, the Nazis have used enormous quantities of printed matter In a thnnklr.xs effort to lustlfy their cn.se In the eyes of Americans...
...There will be other incidentals, he explains...
...Farmer-Labor party groups are sponsoring the memorials...
...Wheeler Is a prospective presidential candidate...
...Fiction...
...Cameron MacKeniie, editor of the publication, said: "It is significant that in Bellingham the two local newspapers are controlled by members of the 'Better Business Builders.' an organization that has played a major part in the fight to crush labor...
...Coyle campaiRncd on a platform of lower electric rates, more WPA, housing, and NYA appropriations...
...Paul's city hall—he's Just expressing his hopes out loud...
...Burton K. Wheeler is scheduled to deliver the principal memorial address . . . Roger W. Babson, nationally known economist and business forecaster, said in a Chicago speech that the Prohibition party is the only hope of the country...
...Anything but shrill is a slick little illustrated weekly called 'Facts in Review' turned out in New York by the German Library of Information...
...The decision as to whether the president shall run for a third term does not rest with him at all...
...Liberals and laborltes scored a political victory in New Britain...
...The "American dream" is threatened today by Communist and Fascist ideologies but it grows steadily clearer that "the only hope of humanity lies in American ideals...
...The grosser forms of Nazi propaganda are scrupulously avoided...
...A small pursuit ship costs $30,000 and a big bomber, $200,000...
...McDonough's success as another indication that the progressive forces in the state are ready to swap party labels through some sort of coalition between them and the Farmer-Labor movement...
...Nor should the warring tribes of Democrats in the state undertake to Interpret Mr...
...Floyd B. Olson of that state...
...It is called 'Facts vs...
...Herbert Hoover in a New York speech . . . Rep...
...The organization is planning ft hot political drive this year for GOP candidates...
...Conn., in the re-election of George J. Coyle as mayor...
...For example, the expense of the navy may run into billions...
...With a reported circulation of 200,000, 'Fac'.s in Review" attempts a sophisticated presentation of German virtue and Allied vice...
...A rump state convention in Florida has named an anti-Dewey slate to go to the GOP primary...
...It must be made by the people of the country as a whole...
...To the casual observer the Democrats in Minnesota have ranked in third place for almost a generation in state politics...
...There is no anti-Semitism and no name-calling...
...U. S. Sen...
...Babson was named the party's candidate for president . . . A writer In the New York Times discusses the cost of war...
...Paul says editorially regarding the recent election: "Posmaster General Farley's attempt to interpret the election of John J. McDonough as a Democratic victory last week lends color to the conviction that the economic lories are not the only ones in the U.S.A...
...in local politics they are nil, and any effort on the part of local Democratic leaders to construe last week's victory as a party victory is Just plain, unadulterated insolence...
...Contending that school children have the right to refuse to salute the flag if it runs counter to the tenets of their religion the American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief as friend of the court in a case argued this week before the U. S. supreme court to determine the long-standing issue...
...Harold Knutson, Minnesota Republican, has introduced a resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution to prohibit presidents from seeking more than two terms...
...OLSON MEMORIAL June 17 is the date set for the holding of banquets throughout Minnesota in honor of the late Gov...
...Paul and Ramsey county to take credit for Mr...
...He added that "with out criticizing either the Republicans or the Democrats, it is fair to say that both have entangling alliances which make it almost impossible for them to take a stand on moral issues...
...A new movement must start, not from above, but from below...
...SMIGLY-RYDZ According to a report that got by the French censors the exiled Polish parliament has demanded the impeachment of Marshal Smigly-Rydz, former Foreign Minister Joseph Beck, and former Premier General Sklad-kowskl of Poland for their conduct during the Nazi blitzkrieg...
...The horrors of concentration camps are overlooked...
...He estimates that an army of 1,000,000 men will cost approximately $9,500,000,000 a year...
...Elliott Roosevelt predicts that his father will not be a third term candidate unless there is a definite demand from the people that he run...
...Politics Notes from Here ond There About Solons and Citizens LBy 'OBSERVERS "FRIDAY"BANNED The new magazine "Friday," which carried articles on the killing of a union official's wife at Bellingham, Wash., was banned from the news stands of that lumber town, it is reported...
...There must be a coalition of all those interested m putting righteousness before expediency...
...said Elliott Roosevelt over the radio...
...The carefully selected facts in 'Facts in Review' are analyzed and supplemented in a publication established for that purpose by a group of Americans...
...But "replacements" of men and planes will run the yearly cost up to $3,500,000,000, according to this authority...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 20
