POLITICS
Polities Notes from Here and There About Solotis and Citizens [By 'OBSERVER]RED LOSES CITIZENSHIP WILLIAM SC1INE1DERMAN, 34, secretary of the Communist party of California, lias been deprived...
...Four spaces are available, but each is occupied...
...He fell by the wayside In the primaries...
...A great many Americans give only lip service to government...
...Wendell Willkle, power trust executive, has announced that his name will be presented to the Republican national convention in nomination for the presidency . . . Public opinion polls show that Thomas Dewey's strength as a GOP presidential candidate is dropping by degrees . . . When Mrs...
...1. He is a very young man...
...He was so young when elected through the aid of organized labor that he had to wait awhile to take his seat because he was not old enough to comply with the constitutional requirements...
...McKeeport, Pa...
...Friends of Supreme Court Justice William Douglas are working overtime trying to persuade him under no circumstances to accept the vice-presidential nomination on the Democratic ticket...
...They were never Intended as a weapon against strikes and other union organizing activities, though they have been distorted for this purpose li some recent court decisions...
...Vito Marcantonio, is sending out literature opposing what it calls the "estalishment < a rule of secret political police in the United States...
...In the opinion of Labor, there is only one answer: It must be designed to safeguard America against foreign attack...
...What am I doing, going out there, when this awful war is on?' So I turned and went home...
...Rush D. Holt has been voted out of his senatorship...
...He knows better now...
...SEN...
...David M. Lewis of Indianapolis, Marlon county prosecutor, has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor of Indiana...
...This food stamp plan program is helping all concerned...
...He's tl»e man to restore confidence and make America safe for "free enterprise...
...It should also knock out the $7,500,000 suit which Republic Steel has brought against the Steel Workers Organizing committee under the anti-trust laws...
...The court declared that the man belonged to an organization which "taught and advocated overthrow of the government by force and violence" . . . Prof...
...Yet hang it they must—and the law provides that it can be installed only in the Capitol...
...Paul B. Johnson of Mississippi urging support of the anti-lynching bill, it got back a reply from Sen...
...WOULD THEY FIGHT...
...It is getting at the grass roots of the surplus problem in this country...
...Lindbergh's views on American foreign policy and defense preparations it was not the first time that she has disagreed with her famous son-in-law...
...or "The Battle of Chapultepec...
...HOLT'S LESSON .The Minneapolis Labor Review observes: "Sen...
...Clark G. Kuebler of Northwestern, addressing a bankers convention in Milwaukee declared: "History shows that as democracies have become established people become smug and assumed they would last...
...THE APEX DECISION The CIO news service says of the Apex decision: "The anti-trust laws as the very name applies, were passed to restrain business monopoly, when price-fixing and other sueli practices run counter to the public interest...
...The Battle of Lake Erie...
...The ILD opposes "all forms of alien or citizen registration and fingerprinting...
...F'ew will disagree with the statement that we have no surpluses of American farm crops (as long as our people are in need of them) except probably wheat and cotton...
...Herder was fined $5 in Recorder's court...
...The case is before the New Jersey supreme court on appeal from the conviction of Milton Herder last fall for selling copies cf "Weekly People," organ of the Socialist...
...You had better be looking after the 365 poor negroes that are clandestinely killed in Harlem...
...famous columnist of the Cleveland Press...
...Holt wil continue to serve until Jan...
...COMMUNISTS...
...BUNDSMEN BARRED The United States Civil Service commission has barred Communists and members of the German Nazi bund from taking federal examinations for Jobs . . . On the ground that freedom of the press is curtailed, the New Jersey committee of the American Civil Liberties Union has intervened aa a friend of the court in a test of an Atlantic City, N. J. ordinance requiring a permit for distribution of newspapers and periodicals...
...She lost out In the general election last March, but Progressive groups in Saskatoon, where a vacancy exists, urged her to be a candidate at a by-election...
...That's what I call the workings of the sixth column...
...Some say it is changing our viewpoints from a program of scarcity to one of plenty...
...He was one of the senators from West Virginia...
...Labor party, without a permit...
...The ruling of the United States supreme court in the Apex case Is a victory for the CIO, not only because it frees a CIO union from an unjust fine, but because it also establishes once and for all that union activity to bring about uniform labor conditions is not subject to the anti-trust laws...
...His political demise should remind other politicians for some time to come that votes of organized workers ran defeat as well as elect people to office...
...has passed an ordinance requiring aliens in that city to register and carry Identifying photographs...
...Finally, we must determine how we wish to use this armament...
...He found out that it is not good political strategy to betray your friends...
...said Miss Macphail, "but I suddenly asked myself...
...Attend to your own business and we will attend to ours...
...Last week the commission wearily pondered which of the following art-works it could most safely scrap: "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way...
...Willkie helped organize, and is president of, the Commonwealth and Southern, which has outstanding 33,673,328 shares of common stock, more than twice as much as any other utility holding company...
...Now that the $31,000 oil has ben delivered by artist Howard Chandler Christy, the commission has no place to hang It...
...He soon became deluded with the idea he was greater than organized labor and Pres...
...We should have the best air force in all the world, and our navy should be second to none...
...Today it is selling at around 75 cents a share, a loss to common stockholders of $999,531,500...
...It was held that Schneiderman had obtained his citizenship illegally...
...He is asking $50,000 more for expenses of ihal agency...
...This will offer the farmers a much wider market for their surplus products during the coming year...
...Dwight W. Morrow, mother in-law of Charles A. Lindbergh, publicly took issue with Col...
...Such large appropriations arc being asked, and granted, that President Roosevelt has found he needs additional personnel In his budget bureau to keep track of all the items...
...New York every year...
...This should be of considerable help to farmers in the corn belt...
...The Ohio Farm Bureau News says editorially: "Nearly a thousand communities have applied for the food stamp plan according to a recent statement by Secretary Wallace...
...Roosevelt finds that cabinet members are slo* to relinquish their jobs voluntarily.' . . . "Some of this country's leading generals and admirals are coming to the conclusion that some of the country's leading state department diplomats have a strange conception of human nature...
...Another ordinance prohibits the manufacture and storage of explosives except through permit and after applicants have been fingerprinted and photographed . . . The International Labor Defense whose president is Rep...
...Quit trying to racketeer on the poor negro about passing anti-lynching bills and 'pulling their leg' for contributions when the problem has been settled by the Southern people...
...The Food Stamp plan seems'to be one way out, if it can be made sufficiently universal to take care of the situation...
...If we can find a way to distribute so-called surpluses to those who want and need them here at home, we will have no serious problem in this< matter...
...Vice President Garner and Capitol Architect David Lynn...
...Unless you can show us where there has been a bigger and a better loss, we will stand by Willkie...
...In a recent survey of egg consumption under the stamp plan in Springfield...
...a non-movable fresco painted directly on plaster*: "Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln...
...Then it goes on to say...
...Roosevelt, who were responsible for his election...
...Every one in Cleveland and vicinity knows "Jack" Raper...
...When the ILD wired Gov...
...Within the nevt few months, it is anticipated that the program will be extended to a total of about 125 areas...
...It is expected that there will be an increased consumption of about 56.000,000 pounds of butter, 59,-000,000 dozens of eggs and 180,000.000 pounds of pork...
...Seven months ago she opposed his views when he attacked the repeal of the arms embargo . . . The Pathfinder reports the following bit of Capital Chat: If you have ever been stumped for space to hang that picture of Grandpa and Grandma, you wll appreciate the problem faced by Speaker of the House Bankhead...
...Polities Notes from Here and There About Solotis and Citizens [By 'OBSERVER]RED LOSES CITIZENSHIP WILLIAM SC1INE1DERMAN, 34, secretary of the Communist party of California, lias been deprived of his citizenship in a federal court in San Francisco...
...I had my bags packed to go to Saskatoon...
...A lot of that has happened here...
...But Douglas' friends consider the supreme court post far more important than the vice-presidency...
...Rush D. Holt's political education is proving quite expensive...
...This is a war against civilization, and whatever I hnd of pacificism went when Austria was invaded...
...Theodore G. Bilbo, which read: "What are you kicking about the passing of the unconstitutional, un-American anti-lynching bill for, when there has not been a lynching in the South in twelve or fifteen months...
...In 1929 It sold as high as $30.50 a share, a total value of $1,037,036,504...
...And what about your Murder Club, Inc., in New York...
...Labor, offirial publication of the railroad brotherhoods, says editorially: "The first thing is to fetch our military establishment under one supreme command, so that army, navy and air force will function together...
...WASHINGTON WHISPERS From Washington Whispers in the United States News: "Two additional cabinet members, Secretaries Woodring and Perkins, are scheduled to follow Navy Secretary Edison into retirement...
...They feel that too much stress is placed by the diplomats on the altruism of Latin-American nations...
...Holt learns something, we hope...
...A group of 30 American business and professional men who urged this country's entrance into the war in Europe have been asked by Frank Miles, editor of the Iowa Legionnaire, if they would fight if this country declares war...
...Known is th" fact that supporters of Roosevelt for a third term consider Douglas an ideal running-mate...
...From Toronto comes this news item: Miss Agnes Macphail has just about decided that for the time being she will not attempt to return to the house of commons...
...The three nre members of a commission formed by Congress lftst year to employ an artist to paint a picture, three stories wide and two stories tall, depicting "The Signing of the Constitution...
...The minute our best citizens begin to be apathetic the leadership of the group goes down, and the group is no better than itr leadership...
...Illinois, it was found that families using the stamps had used 360~ more eggs than before the program was inaugurated...
...Particularly those responsible for your success...
...Recently "Jack" delivered himself as folows: "We believe we'll back Wendell Willkle, super-magnate of utilities, for president...
...Talk is that New York's Mayor La Guardia is slated to take over the war secretaryship and AFL's Dan To-bin the labor secretaryship...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 25
