Melanie Scarborough: Norman Thomas is smiling somewhere

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As the candidate of the Socialist Party, Norman Thomas ran in every presidential election between 1928 and 1948. He never came close to getting an electoral vote — nor did he expect to — because his party’s views were considered very radical at the time.

Among the planks of the Socialists’ 1932 platform were proposals for:

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