To: Ptarmigan
Weird. Wasn't Hubert Humphrey a leftist though?
Herbert Humphreys*, (mayor of Mpls-StP in 1948) ran in Minnesota on the Democratic-Farmer-Labor ticket. (The name of the Dems in that State.)
The year he was first elected to the Senate, 1948, there was a major struggle in the DFL, when Truman was running for re-election, and the Communists in the DFL bolted and supported Henry Wallace for President.
From 1945 - 1950, there were a lot of times known Communists were kicked out (mostly) of unions and political parties.
* Courtesy of Pat Paulsen
16 posted on
09/11/2004 3:09:11 PM PDT by
Mike Fieschko
("Daddy, are there bad men on your planes?")
To: Mike Fieschko
* Courtesy of Pat Paulsen
WOW, theres a name I haven't heard in a long,long time.
18 posted on
09/11/2004 3:40:24 PM PDT by
loboinok
(Gun control is hitting what you aim at!)
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