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IssueVol. 004 Issue 040 (October 5 1940)
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Paid articleNation's Youth Awaits Fateful Lottery On Draft Into Military Service
Nation's Youth Awaits Fateful Lottery On Draft Into Military Service CONSCRIPTION into the United States army loomed large in the minds of 17,000,000 young men this week as selective service...
Paid articleBig Corporations Get Richer On Nation's Defense
Big Corporations Get Richer On Nation's Defense NATIONAL defense means sacrifice, America has been told. For big corporations, however, national defense has been a boom. The Republic Steel Co....
Paid articleMontreal Paper Predicts U. S. In War By April 1
Montreal Paper Predicts U. S. In War By April 1 The prediction of Edward Had-ley, Washington correspondent of the Montreal Star, in a dispatch to his paper, that "the United States will enter the...
Paid articleSensational S E C Survey Shows T i g h t Grasp O f 2 0 0 Huge Corporations
Sensational SEC Survey Shows Tight Grasp Of 200 Huge Corporations THIRTEEN "royal families" including the Fords, Du Ponts, Rockefellers and Mellons, dominate this country's economic life through...
Paid articlePower Trust Seeks To Nab Nation's Rivers
Power Trust Seeks To Nab Nation's Rivers BILLIONS of dollars and the ownership and control of the nation's rivers are at stake in a heated controversy that was carried to the Supreme Court last...
Paid articleCredit Denied Small Business, S E C Disci oses
Credit Denied Small Business, SEC Disci oses THE small businessman is in the ^aiue boat as the small farmer, according to a special report on •"Hie Financial Problem of Small Business," made by...
Paid articleJohnson, Jackson Pepper Lindy's Radio Remarks
Johnson, Jackson Pepper Lindy's Radio Remarks Two New Deal guns popped off at Col. Charles A. Lindburgh last week in reply to his recent radio address. Louis A. Johnson, former assistant secretary...
Paid articleThompkins Predicts Negro V o t e Will G o T o FDR
Thompkins Predicts Negro Vote Will Go To FDR Of the 5,100,000 Negroes north o'. the Mason and Dixon line, 85 percent will support President Roosevelt, predicted William J. Thompkins, Washington,...
Paid articleC O - O P M O V IE
CO-OP MOVIE A new colored movie, "Consumers Serve Themselves," is now ready for distribution, the Cooperative League of the U. S. A. announced last week. The one reel, silent film shows the...
Paid articleKeep Heads' A f t e r Election, Clapper Warns
'Keep Heads' After Election, Clapper Warns Americans must adjust' their political differences without bitterness after the election is over, if we are to have the national unity necessary in the...
Paid articleBritish Censorship Cramps Reporters
British Censorship Cramps Reporters The term "military secrets" has come to mean almost anything that has been hit by a bomb, unless the British 'government wants to announce it officially, reports...
Paid articleSocialists Are On 29 State Ballots Nov. 5
Socialists Are On 29 State Ballots Nov. 5 AN estimated totai of 35,000,000 voters living in 29 states will find the Socialist ticket on their ballots when they enter polling booths on Nov....
Paid articleU.S. Public Health Needs Dynamic Push
U.S. Public Health Needs Dynamic Push America needs "a dynamic drive for health preparedness" as a major step "in our social and political planning for national defense," Prof. W. S. Leathers of...
Paid articleChicago Faculty Thinks America Will Enter War
Chicago Faculty Thinks America Will Enter War Two out of every three University of Chicago faculty members believe that the United States will eventually enter the war, according to a poll...
Paid articlePecora Hits Italys Sale* Of Fascism
Pecora Hits Italys Sale* Of Fascism Italian fascism "is trying to sell so-called 'Italians abroad' the same rotten bill of goods it has foisted upon Italians at home," New York's Supreme...
Paid articleDr. H. E. Sigerist Lauds Elk City's Health Cooperative
Dr. H. E. Sigerist Lauds Elk City's Health Cooperative In two recent articles in PM, New York's new ad-less daily, Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins...
Paid articleMan Power "Damned Up" O n U.S. Farms
Man power is piling up on ihe farms of America. There was a drop of 339,000 in the number of persons working on farms between 1930 and 1940, even though farm population increased 2,07 6.000 in the...
Paid articleLift Income For Guns And Butter, AFL Paper Asks
Lift Income For Guns And Butter, AFL Paper Asks A national income that would pay for the defense program and also lift living standards can he achieved if 7,000,000 workers are re-employed in the...
Paid articleJohnson Nods To Willkie, Downey-Helps Roosevelt
Johnson Nods To Willkie, Downey-Helps Roosevelt Sen. Hiram Johnson, veteran California Republican, marched into the third-term fray last, week with the declaration that if presented "in greater...
Paid articleWhat Should We Fight For?
What Should We Fight For? • • • -By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD-THE DETERMINATION of the Administration it, Washington and; certain influential groups to put us into the war on the side of the...
Paid articleSt. Paul Housing Co-op Largest Twin City Job
St. Paul Housing Co-op Largest Twin City Job ' The largest construction job in the Twin Cities today is'that of the St. Paul Cooperative' Hbusing Association, according to The Cooperative...
Paid articleLandlords Cashing In On Defense, Claim
Landlords Cashing In On Defense, Claim Complaints that landlords throughout the country are taking advantage of the housing shortage to exploit tenants have moved the defense commission to...
Paid articleHungary Gags From War It Isn't Fighting
Hungary Gags From War It Isn't Fighting ALTHOUGH not_ at war, Hungary is suffering the same economic strangulation that a besieged nation might undergo from a powerful enemy. In Hungary commodity...
Paid articleDoctor Sees War As 'Will To Die'
Doctor Sees War As 'Will To Die' A "will to die" motivates war more than the "will to live," Dr. Karl A. Menninger, psychiatrist, told a medical group in Fort Worth, Tex., last week. "We must get...
Paid articleWillkie Gains, But F D R Still O u t In Front
Willkie Gains, But FDR Still Out In Front THE Willkie drive has won five states away from Roosevelt but the President still has 414 electoral votes to 117 for his Republican opponent, the latest...
Paid articleTHE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT
THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT Hungary Gags From War It Isn't FightingCo-ops Can Kill Fascist Weeds, Bo wen Boasts Rapid growth of cooperatives "is the only way to temporarily choke and eventually...
Paid articleFarmer Labor Relations
Farmer Labor Relations • • • U=By WALTER H. UPHOFF=! SO much has been written and said about the merits and demerits of the sales tax that it is to the interest of farmers and workers to inquire...
Paid articleNational Farm Leaders Urge Support Of Bob
National Farm Leaders Urge Support Of Bob ARINGING endorsement of Bob La Follette's farm record was approved this year by the farm leaders of 23 midwestern states, including Wisconsin. The group,...
Paid articleDefend America First
Defend America First America, believes Sen. Arthur Capper of Kansas, must rebuild herself from within. Stay out of foreign wars, he warns in a recent radio speech condensed here, and concentrate on...
Paid articleHere's Schedule Of Exciting Radio Dramas
Here's Schedule Of Exciting Radio Dramas Check your radio, station and tune in on these exciting radio dramatizations on Bob La Follette, done in the "March of Time" fashion: WRJN, Racine —...
Paid articleFDR Will Be Back, Collier's Writer Says
FDR Will Be Back, Collier's Writer Says WALTER Davenport, political editor of Collier's, predicts the re-election of Pres. Roosevelt as a result of his recently completed nation-wide tour of...
Paid articleClausen Urges Sales Tax On Food,Workshirts
Clausen Urges Sales Tax On Food,Workshirts FRED H. Clausen, millic aire Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate, is opposed to the taxation of corporation profits, but he demands a consumption...
Paid articleCheap Stiff
'Cheap Sti fp Heil Calls Stoughton Man Who Didn't Care To Shake Hands WHEN Gov. Julius P. Heil stepped out of his 16-eylinder grey Cadillac which followed his Dodge sound truck into Stoughton last...
Paid articleTHE PEOPLES FORUM
Farmers For Bob (A Telegram) Editor, The Progressive: Have just discussed with officials of the Farmers Union in North Dakota and Montana at their state conventions the hard political fight being...
Paid article1 Never Talk Politics With Strangers'
1 Never Talk Politics With Strangers' -By GEORGE MIDDLETON(Noted Plauicriaht > ¦VJOBODY KNOWS his name. Nobody, in tact, seems to know anything about him. But I've been noticing him around the...
Paid articleHenry Ohl, Jr., Labor Leader, Dies Suddenly
Henry Ohl, Jr., Labor Leader, Dies Suddenly HENRY Ohl. Jr., president of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor and nationally known labor leader, died unexpectedly in Washington last week of a...
Paid articleBill Evjue Urges Election Of Bob, FDR And Loomis
Bill Evjue Urges Election Of Bob, FDR And Loomis William T. Evjue, editor of the Madison Capital Times, urged the election of Pres. Roosevelt, U. S. Sen. Robert M. La Follette and Or-land S. Loomis...
Paid articleDemocratic County Units Tilt Support To Bob, Loomis
Democratic County Units Tilt Support To Bob, Loomis Eight more Democratic county organizations swung their active support last week to the election of U. S. Sen. Robert M. La Follette, Jr., and...
Paid articleWallace And McNary Laud Bob's Record
Wallace And McNary Laud Bob's Record THE-furm record of Wisconsin's Bob La [collette is so outstanding that he has won the acclaim of bot It the Republican and the Democratic vice presidential...
Paid articleSplit
Split A Prognosticating Team Divides On Election James A. Farley, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, says Roosevelt will win by fewer popular votes than in 1936 but by an...
Paid articleRoom 1224
Room 1224 HeiTs Room Of Mystery Yields Interesting Goings On Split A Prognosticating Team Divides On Election James A. Farley, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, says...
Paid articleA ROOM OF OUR OWN
A ROOM OF OUR OWn TOO MANY PEOPLE tell me with righteous self-satisfaction, "I am for Bob La Follette all right; I always vote for the man rather than the party". 1 consider this a very limited...
Paid articleYou'll Mark Two Ballots Nov. 5 - This Tells How
You'll Mark Two Ballots Nov. 5 — This Tells How WHEN you go to the, polls Nov. 5. you'll be handed two ballots. One is the o'fhcial presidential, ballot, and the plher is the official" state...
Paid articleTHE VOTE
THE VOTE Why I Bel i eve It's Important -By AGNES V. SHIPMAN(Wisconsin Rapids, W .) IBELIEVE it is important to vote because voting is the culmination ©f the whole process of civic duty....
Paid articleMrs. Bob Glad T o Be l-l ome, Campaigns Too
Mrs. Bob Glad To Be l-l ome, Campaigns Too A/f RS. BOB LA FOLLETTE is herself. She isn't the least bit like Eleanor Roosevelt. Martha Taft, Mrs. Wendell Willkie, nor even any Hollywood glamour...
Paid articleWomen Candidates Campaign Actively For Public O f f i c e
Women Candidates Campaign Actively For Public Office * ALONG with Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first woman elected to Congress, out to recapture her seat after 22 years. • 29 women throught...
Paid articleWhite Cards
White Cards THEY HAVE MORE than 16 million names now on white cards. There is Jones and Pszewski, Rutherford and Cohen, Macklin and Brown, O'Conner and McTav-ish, Philips and Van Ruyter—Mayflower...
Paid articleThis Is The Year
This Is The Year THE CHOICE between Progressive and Republican candidates has never been so crystal clear, the difference between the two parties' leaders so striking as they are in Wisconsin's...
Paid articleRoosevelt, LaFollette And Loomis
Roosevelt, LaFollette And Loomis (From The Elmwood, Wis., Argus) T IBERALS of Wisconsin can carry the Badger state if they unite their forces—divided as they are now, they'll go down to defeat in...
Paid articleA Good Campaign Issue
A Good Campaign Issue (From Farmer-Labor News, Modesto, Calif.) A GREAT MAJORITY of the people of the United States are convinced that the time has come when it is possible to have adequate food,...
Paid articleMr. Willkie's Glamour Doesn't Wear Well
Mr. Willkie Likes The New Deal ^OW THE CANDIDATE of these groups must en-dorse the legislative reforms of the New Deal in order to get even a cursory hearing fiom the public. As Los Angeles Willkie...
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