Election 1944: Norman Thomas asks $500,000 (11-4-44)

The Pittsburgh Press (November 4, 1944)

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Norman Thomas asks $500,000

New York (UP) –
Norman Thomas, Socialist Party candidate for President, has filed suit for $500,000 damages against Daniel Tobin, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL), charging that references to Mr. Thomas in the union magazine constituted “malicious libel.”