[Homer_J_Simpson]

This was the front page lead in the Sunday edition.

[Seruzawa]

Get rid if all the fascists? A good trick if you can do it. But I doubt that all the demorats (and most of the pubbies) will leave voluntarily.

[2banana]

Chanting “We Want Americanism – Not Reds,” and following a band playing patriotic music, about fifty men, mostly war veterans, broke up a meeting in Military Park in the heart of the city tonight, at which Norman Thomas, former Socialist candidate for President, was to have spoken.

Back when the "right wing" had some balls...

[oh8eleven]

Police Rescue Socialist as Angry Group Moves on Speakers’ Stand
Good thing we haven't changed. Oh wait ...

[lexusppd]

Frankly I see little difference between those who stopped the Commie from speaking and the liberals who do the same when a Republican attempts to speak.

[John Leland 1789]

Are we in a day when more of the same will be necessary? I don’t think the American people in General can tell the difference anymore. Now they would cry, “More socialism; down with the Republic.”

[ikka]

EVAN THOMAS of Newsweek is the grandson of this Norman Thomas.

[silverleaf]

More examples of the concept that kristallnacht was an exercise in free speech

[RabidBartender]

Thanks for posting - I love reading “at-the-time” news articles to get a feel for what it was like (without the benefit of hindsight).

I wonder if Nelson’s opponents could have invoked Godwin’s law when he accused them of acting like “Hitler’s brown shirts”. :p

[Madame Dufarge]

broke up in truly Hitler-like fashion a peaceful meeting for which the Socialist party had a permit. Has Newark turned Nazi?

National Socialist German Workers' Party.

[tcostell]

Things certainly look different in that part of New Jersey today:

Mad Max 7: Beyond the Pulaski Skyway.