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A Farmer Candidate
Rorty, James | October 17, 1936 issue

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On the platform George Nelson, Socialist candidate for U.S. Vice-President in this election, adjusted his steel-rimmed spectacles, peered a little apprehensively at his metropolitan audience, and began his speech. That's the way the radical farmers do it in the dairy states, just before they stop a foreclosure or regretfully spill some milk and that's the way Nelson does it, no matter what audience he is talking to. Seldom has the American electorate been treated to a performance of such simple, earnest, grass-roots authenticity.

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NELSON, George; VICE-Presidents -- United States -- Election; VICE-Presidential candidates; UNITED States -- Politics & government; SOCIALIST parties; UNITED States
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