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IssueVol. 004 Issue 027 (July 6 1940)
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Paid articlePlatform Contradicts Itself, Candidates Don't Speak Same Language O n Issues
Platform Contradicts Itself, Candidates Don't Speak Same Language On Issues By MORRIS H. RUBIN A WEASEL-WORD PLATFORM, over-ripe with political -tV humbuggery and contradictory appeals, and a pair...
Paid articleProgressive Youth Ready For Action At 1st Convention
Progressive Youth Ready For Action At 1st Convention FORMING rapidly throughout the state as a driving, militant organization, Young Progressives of Wisconsin will gather at Portage Saturday and...
Paid article"The Fight For Fair Taxes Has Just Begun"
"The Fight For Fair Taxes Has Just Begun" VAST NATIONAL DEFENSE appropriations in this session of Congress- present a vital issue. Who is to pay the bill—and how? This is a question which the...
Paid articlePoliticians Stirred, Readers Pleased With Progressive
Politicians Stirred, Readers Pleased With Progressive DESPITE the fact that it was thrown into competition with the high-powered ballyhoo of the Republican national convention, the appearance of...
Paid articleCounty Tickets Taking Shape Throughout State
County Tickets Taking Shape Throughout State THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY'S call for a full party ticket in every county in Wisconsin is meeting with spectacular success in all sections of the state,...
Paid articleJoin Political Party, Hobbins Tells Youth
Join Political Party, Hobbins Tells Youth - Madison, Wis.—Remember your high school graduation? We were hot and uncomfortable. The well-meaning speaker, also hot, gave us big phrases and assured us...
Paid articleGo To It, Phil Applaud 9 7% of Radio Public
"Go To It, Phil" Applaud 9 7% of Radio Public FROM Wisconsin, Montana, New York, Texas, Illinois, Oklahoma, California, and New Jersey—from these and virtually every state in the nation, American...
Paid articleFight Only For Peace Cool New War Fever': Archbishop Beckman
'Fight Only For Peace Cool New War Fever': Archbishop Beckman Dubuque, la.—A two-fisted attack on the "hysteria for American intervention" in the European war was launched recently by the Most...
Paid articleYoung Progressives
Young Progressives THIS week young Progressives from all over the state will gather in Portage for the convention. Since it is usually difficult for young Progressives to find means of...
Paid articleHome
Home * * * "Keep the Boys Home" is Washington Sentiment, P.M. Survey Indicates Seattle, Wash.—A 5 00-mile canvass of the Washington countryside showed unanimous sentiment behind the one slogan of...
Paid articleHuge Crowd Cheers Bob, Evjue, As They Laud Public Servant's Record
Huge Crowd Cheers Bob, Evjue, As They Laud Public Servant's Record DAN HOAN, whose 24-year stewardship as mayor of Milwaukee won world acclaim, blushed a little last week as 1,000 men and women,...
Paid articleBooklet on Bob, Jr. Ready For Readers Of Progressive
Booklet on Bob, Jr. Ready For Readers Of Progressive TEE second printing of the pamphlet, reviewing the life and career of Sen. Robert M. La Follette, Jr., has just come from the press. Readers of...
Paid articleOregon Liberals Warn Americans To Shun War
Oregon Liberals Warn Americans To Shun War Portland, Ore.—Involvement of the United States in war will "bring to our nation, now the last great outpost of democracy, the very dictatorship which we...
Paid articleWheeler's Peace Stand 97%Popular, Mail Shows
Wheeler's Peace Stand 9 7%Popular\MailShows Washington, D. C.—Sen, Bur-'ton K. Wheeler said last week that his "Keep Out of War" stand has brought him a flood of mail, and that only about three...
Paid articleNew Badger REA Co-Op Paper Appears
New Badger REA Co-Op Paper Appears TERMING itself "the voice of 3 3,000 members" a new monthly tabloid-size paper, "Wisconsin REA News," appeared this week. The paper is edited by H. M....
Paid articleBomb Scare
Bomb Scare * * * But It Was Only A Salesman Who Forgot His Sample THE bomb squad of New York City's hustling Police Department had itself a strenuous night last week after someone found a bomb...
Paid articleJuly 30 Deadline For Nomination Papers
July 30 Deadline For Nomination Papers DEADLINE for filing of nomina tion papers for state, county and legislative offices in Madisoi is Tuesday, July 30, the secretary of state's department warned...
Paid articlePublic Ownership Extends Now To 500 More Cities
Public Ownership Extends Now To 500 More Cities MUNICIPAL ownership of light and power plants increased by more than 500 installations during the past two years, according to figures gathered by...
Paid articleStafford Denounces Heil's Utility Favors
Stafford Denounces Heil's Utility Favors Wilton, Wis.—The ghost of Samuel Insull, who in his lifetime headed a great utilities empire, "still walks as long as men like Julius Heil hold high...
Paid articleEurope Doesn't Need U. S. Money, Liberals Contend
Europe Doesn't Need U. S. Money, Liberals Contend REPEAL of the Johnson Act and the cash clause of the Neutrality act would be of no material gain to the Allies and "would provide nothing more than...
Paid articleRefused
Refused * » * WDA Directors Won't Accepl Becker's Resignation DIRECTORS of the Wisconsin Development Authority, a semi-public agency devoted to cooperative and public ownership of electric...
Paid articleUnemployment Weakens Defense, Says Young
Unemployment Weakens Defense, Says Young Milwaukee, Wis.—Getting people to work is "our first and most important task," Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric co., told the...
Paid articleA Planless Democracy Is Doomed . . .
A Planless Democracy Is Doomed . . . . . . yearning to stay out of war, the American people want a real program of action for America . . . Unless the job is done by men of integrity and good will,...
Paid articleState G.O.P. Shifts Taxes to Farms, Homes
State G.O.P. Shifts Taxes to Farms, Homes WISCONSIN'S Republican administration was accused last week of "misleading" the public in claiming that increased state aids to local units of government...
Paid articleFrench Refugee Opinion Bitter Against England, Divided Over U.S. Entry
French Refugee Opinion Bitter Against England, Divided OverU.S. Entry IN New York City there are thousands of transplanted Frenchmen. Recently PM, New York's new newspaper, asked a cross-section of...
Paid articleHiilman: 'Labor's Foes Are Foes of Defense'
Hiilman: 'Labor's Foes Are Foes of Defense' THE FOES of labor are the foes of national defense, Sidney Hiilman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and labor and employment...
Paid articleDepartment of Concurrence, Dissent and Discussion
Department of • Concurrence • Dissent and • Discussion EDITOR'S NOTE The Progressive has one of the most loyal, articulate, and plain-speaking list of subscribers in America. Many of them write...
Paid articlePropagandists Called Cowards by Sen. Clark
Propagandists Called Cowards by Sen. Clark Washington, D. C.—Any method which has a tendency to lead us into war is not a method short of war, Sen. D. Worth Clark, of Idaho said in a radio speech...
Paid articleSpurn Roads To War, Plea Of Socialists
Spurn Roads To War, Plea Of Socialists HOWEVER hard the decision, "The American people must resolutely determine to avoid all roads to war and pursue only the paths to peace," the Socialist Party...
Paid articlePhil To Deliver Major Radio Talks On July 6, 7, 8
Phil To Deliver Major Radio Talks On July 6, 7, 8 PHILIP F. LA FOLLETTE, who is waging a two-fisted campaign for a constructive American pro-; gram as opposed to involvement in the European war,...
Paid articleMunicipal Plant Gives Private Utility A $1,378,000 Scare
Municipal Plant Gives Private Utility A $1,378,000 Scare Cleveland, O.—Cleveland has two electric light plants—one owned by the people, serving about one-sixth of the city, and the other owned by...
Paid articleTons of Food To Fill Stomachs Of Second Arm
Tons of Food To Fill Stomachs Of Second Army Sparta, Wis.—Military preparation and theory may be moving towards mechanization, but armies still "move on their stomachs." To move the 65,000...
Paid articleReal 'Citadel of Democracy' Here; To Save It, Stay at Peace
Real 'Citadel of Democracy' Here; To Save It, Stay at Peace By EDWARD PRICE BELL A Noted War Correspondent during the World War /""VNE NIGHT toward midspring, 1917, just before the battle of Vimp...
Paid articleWheeler Decries GOP War Plank, Predicts 3rd Party
Wheeler Decries GOP War Plank, Predicts 3rd Party Chicago—A "new and great anti-war party" was forecast by Sen. Wheeler, Montana Progressive Democrat, if the Democratic party follows th Republican...
Paid articleDon't Let Defense Obscure Jobless Problem, Religious Leaders Warn
Don't Let Defense Obscure Jobless Problem, Religious Leaders Warn Washington, D. C.—A sharp reminder to the American people that unemployment is still the nation's paramount domestic issue came...
Paid articleMr. LaFollette's Wonderful Word
Mr. LaFollette's Wonderful Word (Green Bay, Wis., Press-Gazette) THERE is me place for common agreement in respect to Philip F.TLa Follette's Thursday night broadcast. It was a sparkling literary...
Paid articleA ROOM FOR OUR OWN
Follette, Isabel Bacon La
A ROOM OF OUR OWN By ISABEL BACON LA FOLLETTE "OEARL BUCK, the American author who lived for years in rev-olutionary China, is quoted as saying "In times like these everyone goes through two...
Paid articleVACATION IDEAS FOR CHILDREN
VACATION IDEAS FOR CHILDREN VACATIONS should be good fun for the parents as well as the children. When the first flush of excitement over "having no more work to do" wears off, however, mothers...
Paid articleBadger Womens Paper Popular
Badger Women s Paper Popular "NEVER was character more need-ed than it is today, and never was there greater opportunity for real service to mankind" is the keynote of "We Live in a Changing...
Paid articleOur American
Our American Government \^7HAT is money? Is it gold, * is it silver? Is it paper, or something in the bank? It is all of these things. Money is a tool that you can buy things with. In our country...
Paid articleManitowoc Women Talk Over Politics With Mrs. La Follette
Manitowoc Women Talk Over Politics With Mrs. La Follette Manitowoc, Wis.—In Mrs. Lyman Fischer's pleasant living room, whose many windows look out over Lake Michigan, 30 women met last Wednesday...
Paid articleThe PROGRESSIVE
The PROGRESSIVE With which is combined La Follette's Magazine, founded in 1909 by Robert*M. La Follette, Sr. Published every Saturday by the Progressive Publishing Company, Tenney Building, 110"...
Paid articleOff Other Presses
Off Other Presses Closer to War (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) TPHE President is moving closer to war. -*- This is shown by his sens'ational appointment of two out-and-out Republican interventionists...
Paid articleLetters To The Editor
Letters To The Editor A BLESSING FOR US Dear Sirs: God bless you for your faith in peace! Milwaukee, Wis. R. VoiGT. FRESH NEW COAT Dear Sirs: Congratulations! And the readers of The...
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