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Political campaigns -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Leaflet, version 1, 1930

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.40
Scope and Contents

Socialist Party campaign leaflet stating the party's philosophy and objectives. Also promotes the candidacy of John F. McKay for US Senator (Montana) and J.P. Cavanaugh for US House of Represetatives (Montana), among others.

Dates: Publication: 1930

Leaflet, version 2, 1930

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.40
Scope and Contents

Socialist Party campaign leaflet stating the party's philosophy and objectives. Also promotes Alfred Baker Lewis for Governor and Sylvester J. McBride for US Senate, both of Massachusetts, in 1930.

Dates: Publication: 1930

Minutes of the National Executive Committee meeting, 1931

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.51
Scope and Contents

Meeting minutes, included topics: unemployment action, the N.E.C. meeting in Atlanta, the presidential campaign,socialist literature to be printed, the agricultural program, Mooney-Billings action, the Socialist Forward Drive, etc.

Dates: Issued: 1931

Progressive Party, Undated

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.21
Scope and Contents

List of recordings on key Party issues for sound trucks and canvassers with prices and ordering information. Recordings offered consisted of 10 inch and 78 rpm records, some of which were of the unbreakable cardboard variety. Topics included red-baiting, Jim Crow protest, FDR tribute, atomic destruction, high cost of living, un-American investigations, and topical union struggles.AA A small selection of recorded speeches/readings were also available.

Dates: Publication: Undated

Report and survey from Clarence Senior to the National Executive Committee, 1931-02-28

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.50
Scope and Contents Cover letter for an extensive report of the Executive Secretary, composed of the following: General survey; Milwaukee Conference; organization of the Italian Socilaists; peace propaganda; tour of speakers, Child Labor Day; women's work; delegates to the Vienna Congress; Berger Memorial Foundfation; N.E.C. meeting in the South; presidential campaign; literature; Mooney-Billings action; Russian resolution; Danville Strike aid; unemployment insurance action; Jimmie Higgins contest; Socialism...
Dates: 1931-02-28

The Situation, 1924

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.38
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Campaign flyer for the American Labor Party, 1924. "Think it over. Let's get together in a Labor Party and build an industrial democracy for Labor...."

Dates: 1924

"The Socialist local planning a municipal campaign is faced with....", Undated

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.42
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy typescript, author unknown. Primarily an overview of Socialist philosophy and advice on advancing those principals on the local level.

Dates: Undated

The Socialist Party Presents Its Program to the Voters of St. Louis, Undated

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.45
Scope and Contents

"Vote Socialist" leaflet promoting the Socialist Party, the Socialist mayoral candidate George E. Duemler, and Socialist Eugene M. Adkins for Comptroller.

Dates: Undated

Upton Sinclair: Man of God - Friend of Man, Undated

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.37
Scope and Contents

Campaign flyer promoting Upton Sinclair for California governor over Frank Merriam, 1934. "...Today, a modern prophe, Upton Sinclair, whom God has sent to us in our affliction asserts again the purity of true religion and the high worht and dignity of man...."

Dates: Publication: Undated

Upton Sinclair Speaks, 1939-10-20

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.37
Scope and Contents

The complete text of a talk by Upton Sinclair, delivered by radio. A leaflet for a Vote NO on No.1 campaign, published in the interest of common sense by the Liberal Committee opposed to the Ham and Eggs Plan, an old-age pension movement in the 1930s.

Dates: Broadcast: 1939-10-20