THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW ALL the world watched an awe-inspiring phenome-, non last week as 48,000,000 Americans trooped to the polls, in the midst of total, global war, to elect their leaders and...
...Robert A. Taft, Republican, ran into surprisingly strenuous opposition but emerged on top...
...His 'plan' fits in perfectly with Hitler's plan for future conquest, which is not surprising when you remember that Thomas is the head of the Socialist-Party in the United States while Hitler is the leader of the Socialist Party in Germany...
...The outcome of two Senatorial contests was still in doubt as this issue of The Progressive was going to press...
...A proposal to give Nebraska a state Prohibition Law was defeated by three to one in a referendum last week...
...Robert Wagner, New York Democrat, made a better showing in winning reelection than the President did in capturing New York state...
...What is really important is that after all of the changes and vicissitudes of four score years we have again demonstrated to the world that democracy is a living vital force, that our faith in American institutions is unshaken...
...In Pennsylvania, Sen...
...No other warring power on earth has permitted a general election, and even in England, "mother of parliaments," there has been no election for nine years...
...Robert McCormick's Tribune and Marshall Field's Sun had a new wrinkle last week...
...Hamilton Fish, New York Republican...
...Newspapers, he asserted, "have become big investments with interests in profits...
...The publication presented a state-by-state summary of results of races in which it said the PAC took a stand...
...Labor Committee, and Lester M. Hunt, editor of the Union's magazine...
...The campaign poll taker who emerged last week with the best performance was Elmo Roper, who conducts the Fortune Magazine poll...
...Thousands of women are turning to pipe-smoking as a result of the cigaret shortage, the tobacco trade reported last week...
...The Sun, the WPB contended, "has hampered and impeded the war effort of the United States of America...
...There was a photo-finish in Missouri, too, where Gov...
...A number of the Roosevelt Administration's severest critics, in the fields of foreign policy or domestic affairs, or both, were retired, assuring clear-cut majorities in both houses of Congress for the Administration...
...John Danaher, Connecticut Republican...
...Faith In America Unshaken' This sweeping Roosevelt triumph in the Electoral College did not give a clear picture of the outcome, however, for the popular vote, indicating that the President had won by about 3,000,000 votes, represented the closest election since 1916 when Woodrow Wilson, running for a second term, shaded Charles Evans Hughes by half a million votes...
...Some of the most newsworthy casualties were Sen...
...Dream...
...Dewey's candidacy for President, Ickes called on newspaper publishers to "explain or comment upon an unhealthy situation" and said they must embark on a campaign of "self-correction...
...For the first time in 80 years, we have held a national election in the midst of war...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW ALL the world watched an awe-inspiring phenome-, non last week as 48,000,000 Americans trooped to the polls, in the midst of total, global war, to elect their leaders and lawmakers...
...The Secretary of the Interior said he believed that the bulk of the newspapers did not "do an honest job of reporting" in the campaign, but that the press services did a "more honest and unbiased job...
...Four years ago the President beat the late Wendell L. Willkie by 4,938,711 votes in a total popular vote of 49,815,312...
...The Wisconsin election saw the Progressive Party suffer its most disastrous defeat in 10 years, the Party's candidates finishing a poor third...
...Dewey won a majority of the vote only in Colorado,-Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming...
...Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party, has launched a $500,000 libel suit against Daniel To-bin, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, AFL, and chairman of the Democratic Party'-s National...
...Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota Republican...
...And, when I say welcome home, I hope that some of the scribes in the papers won't intimate that I expect to make Washington my permanent residence for the rest of my life...
...The Roosevelt margin over Alf Landon in 1936 was more than 10 million, and over Herbert Hoover in 1932 more than seven million...
...There was widespread agreement among the experts and analysts that the PAC had been a powerful factor in getting out the vote in the urban centers and thus turning the tide in behalf of President Roosevelt and his Congressional supporters...
...Commenting on his great triumph, President Roosevelt asserted the outcome proved that the faith of the voters in American institutions is unshaken...
...Melvin Maas, Minnesota Republican...
...Among the objectionable passages were the following : "Norman Thomas has a postwar plan...
...Roosevelt told the crowd that the reception was "a welcome that I shall always remgm'ber...
...Pat McCarran, Democrat but a frequent critic of the Administration, won a decisive victory despite a bitter attempt on his political life in the primary...
...Emil Hurja, editor of Path finder, 'had the biggest headache, for his poll alone had predicted a Dewey triumph...
...Scott Lucas, Democrat, who is a constant supporter of the Administration, won handily, while in Ohio, Sen...
...Feud...
...Alexander Wiley, Republican, who had been opposed as an "isolationist," won over his Democratic and Progressive opponents, Rep...
...A PAC "spokesman," not otherwise identified, issued a statement urging the organization to launch an extensive between-elections "educational campaign...
...Harry Fleischman, national secretary of the Socialist Party, issued a statement characterizing the Tobin-Hunt statement as "a new low in political smears...
...Harry Sauthoff respectively...
...No one is more interested in a free press than I am, but some explanation is needed as to why they had such little influence in the greatest campaign sirice 1864...
...Citing a poll by the newspaper trade journal, Editor & Publisher, which showed 68.5 per cent of 1,324 newspapers supporting Gov...
...Stephen Day, Illinois Republican, and Rep...
...Forrest C. Donnell, Republican, was reported leading Roy McKittrick, Democrat, by so slight a margin that the result hinged on the outcome of balloting by some 60,000 servicemen, whose votes were being counted this week...
...James J. Davis, veteran Republican lawmaker, was trailing his Democratic opponent, Francis J. Myers, by some 6,000 votes at midweek with some 230,000 soldier ballots to be counted, starting Nov...
...Names And Notes In The News Suit...
...Smokes...
...The CIO News, .an official publication, released a list of 114 election winners who, it claimed, were backed by the PAC...
...Another victor in spite of strenuous PAC efforts and intervention of scores of New York intellectuals was Clare Booth Luce, Connecticut Republican, whose tart tongue has long been lashing the Roosevelt Administration...
...The Democratic Party's sweep of 36 states in the Presidential race was accompanied by a significant development in the highly important Congressional elections...
...Labor, official publication of the Railroad Brotherhoods, noted this week that "Sidney Hillman's CIO Political Action Committee made a vicious attack on McCarran in the primary, literally flooding Nevada with downright lies and clever half-truths...
...Calvin Coolidge won over John W. Davis in 1924 by more than seven million, and Warren G. Harding defeated James Cox in 1920 by seven million...
...The verdict of the people was decisive...
...that conscience and not force is the source of power in the government of man...
...The outcome of the Presidential and Congressional elections focused the national spotlight on the CIO-PAC and its companion organization, the National Citizens Political Action Committee...
...A private first class at Sedalia Field, Mo., sewed master-sergeant stripes on his pajamas, said: "I can dream, can't I?" Polls...
...Many women are urging pipes be put out in assorted colors so they can select a pipe to match their day's costume...
...Roper, who does not engage in speculation on the number of electoral votes, gave President Roosevelt 53.6 per cent of the popular vote...
...The Sweep In Congress Returning to Washington from his Hyde Park estate, the President received the acclaim of hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians who turned out in a drenching rain to welcome him...
...Jerry Voorhis, California Democrat, rolled to a hard-won triumph...
...Many of the most progressive-minded members of House and Senate were returned to office...
...The tabulation, admittedly incomplete, revealed that a number of candidates supported by the PAC lost, but the data given was not detailed enough for an accurate count...
...It is a continuing thing, that must be guarded in non-election years...
...In Nevada, Sen...
...Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, who has tangled frequently with the press, pointed out last week that the nation's rejection of newspaper leadership in the Presidential election indicated "a dangerous decline in reader confidence without which a free press lacks strength...
...Elbert Thomas, Utah Democrat, won after a fight, and Rep...
...Not even "the politically ignorant have ever claimed there was any similarity or affinity between the democratic socialism of the Socialist Party and the fascist national socialism of Hitler—and both Dan Tobin and Lester Hunt know better...
...Although most of the other polls had given Mr...
...Just a couple of Socialist boys looking at the world through blood-smeared glasses...
...Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican contender, took only 12 states with a electoral vote of 99...
...The National Association of Manufacturers and the Chambers of Commerce find something to do every day of the year," this spokesman pointed out...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, contending for an unprecedented fourth term after a storm-ridden and equally unprecedented third term, rolled up an overwhelming victory in the Electoral College, capturing 36 states and their 432 electoral votes, while New York's Gov...
...It is the kind of plan you would expect from a man who has spent so much time fawning on the Germans and Japs while they were killing Thomas' fellow countrymen...
...The PAC sent out 83,000,000 pieces of literature in the campaign, the spokesman said...
...Hoover's margin over the late Alfred E. Smith in 1928 exceeded six million...
...Most of the politicians and many a thoughtful layman pondered the implications of the PAC's performance and tried to weigh its possibilities for the future—if it decides to keep functioning...
...In Wisconsin, Sen...
...Guy Gillette, Iowa Democrat...
...The Sun has long accused the Tribune of interfering with the war effort and providing encouragement for our enemies...
...What Now For The PAC...
...They both know that Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party were fighting Hitlerism and fascism not only abroad, but here at home when Democratic and Republican capitalist leaders were saying, 'We must do business with Hitler.'" * * * Wets Win...
...Chicago's newspaper feud between Col...
...Roosevelt a lead in the popular vote, they had hedged -so in the electoral count as to render an accounting difficult...
...Thomas's action, charging "malicious libel," is based on an editorial in the Team-" ster's publication which denounced Thomas' stand against permanent peacetime conscription...
...Howard McMurray and Rep...
...In that faith let us unite to win the war and to achieve a lasting peace...
...Latest returns showed the President's proportion at 53.4 per cent...
...Press...
...Sidney Hillman, president of the PAC, asserted last week that "it is expected to be continued" but the decision will probably be left for the CIO convention in Chicago, Nov...
...Last week, the Tribune joyously played up a War Production Board order charging the Sun with excess use of 886,890 tons of newsprint in violation of WPB regulations...
...We know that the wrong way to maintain a democracy is to sit back after an election and rest on the theory we have turned the rascals out...
...Two Races In Doubt In Illinois, Sen...
...The Sun, too, carried the story—on its back page—along with a denial and a charge that WPB's language was "vicious and unwarranted...
Vol. 8 • November 1944 • No. 47
