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The U.S., which thinks of itself as--and is--a two-party nation, found itself last week with eleven different presidential tickets. Besides the Republicans' Dewey and Warren, the Democrats' Truman and Barkley, the Progressives' Wallace and Taylor, the Dixiecrats' Thurmond and Wright, there were seven other entries. Their backers were few, fanatical, as noisy as their budgets would allow.

Socialist: for President, Norman Thomas, 63 (for the sixth time) ; for Vice President, Tucker P. Smith, professor of economics at Michigan's Olivet College. Advocating public ownership of natural resources, basic industries and credit, the Socialists denounced Henry Wallace as "an apologist for the slave state of Russia and the preacher of peace by blind appeasement." The party polled 884,000 votes in 1932, dropped to 80,518 in 1944.

Socialist Labor: for president, Edward A. Teichert, 44, a Greensburg, Pa. steelworker; for Vice President, Stephen Emery, 40, a Manhattan subway dispatcher. The party has run candidates for President since 1892, polled 45,000 votes in 1944. It advocates Marxism, opposes Wallace because he "stands for the preservation of the capitalist system."

Socialist Worker: for President, Farrell Dobbs, 41, onetime organizer for the A.F.L. Teamsters' Union; for Vice President, Dr. Grace Carlson, 41, onetime assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota and the wife of a St. Paul lawyer. A Trotskyist group organized in 1928 when its leaders were expelled from the Communist Party, it is running a presidential ticket for the first time. In 1941, Dobbs, Mrs. Carlson and 16 other party members were convicted and sent to jail for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the Government. They do not really advocate such rebellion, says Mrs. Carlson, "but we predict it." They consider Wallace "a millionaire demagogue ..."

Christian Nationalist: for President, Gerald L. K. Smith, 50, rabble-rousing, race-baiting ex-preacher from Louisiana; for Vice President, Harry Romer, 50, a funeral director of St. Henry, Ohio. Smith and Romer were running mates in 1944 on the America First ticket. They advocate withdrawal of the U.S. from U.N., establishment of friendly relations with Franco Spain, deportation of all Negroes and Zionist Jews.

Greenback Party: for President, John G. Scott, 69, a farmer from Craryville, N.Y.; for Vice President, Granville B. Leeke, 59, maintenance man in a South Bend lathe factory. Founded in 1874, its present program might be summarized as follows: The way to stop boom-bust cycles is just print money when it is needed.

Prohibition: for President, Claude Watson, 63, a lawyer and retired Free Methodist preacher from Los Angeles; for Vice President, Dale H. Learn, real-estate operator of East Stroudsburg, Pa. The party polled 74,758 votes in 1944.

American Vegetarian: for President, Dr. John Maxwell, 84, a Chicago doctor of naturopathy; for Vice President, Symon Gould, 52, Manhattan bibliophile and director of the American Library Service. The party advocates extermination of cattle and conversion of their grazing lands to food production.

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