#########################################################################
# Approaching Eugene Debs
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event = {
id = 3733
random = no
country = USA
name = "Approach Eugene Debs?"
desc = "As 1936 went on and the problems of the Great Depression continued, Norman Thomas and several associates such as Floyd B. Olson and Huey Long determined that to win the upcoming Federal Elections they would need to persuade Eugene Debs to retake the Socialist mantel. Debs, the founder of the Socialist Party had resigned over health problems a decade before and would prove difficult to recruit."
picture = "eugene_debs"
style = 0
date = { day = 28 month = march year = 1936 }
action_a = {
name = "Approach Debs"
command = { type = trigger which = 3734 } #Debs Accepts
command = { type = dissent which = -1 }
}
action_b = {
name = "No Need To Rock The Boat"
command = { type = dissent which = 1 }
}
}
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# Eugene Debs Accepts the Socialist Nomination
#########################################################################
event = {
id = 3734
random = no
country = USA
name = "Eugene Debs Accepts the Nomination"
desc = "Approached by Norman Thomas, Floyd B. Olson, and Huey Long, Debs initially offered resistance to taking the nomination - citing health issues. After several days of discussion however it was determined that he would run, and with Huey Long as his Vice Presidential candidate."
picture = "eugene_debs"
style = 0
date = { day = 4 month = april year = 1936 }
action_a = {
name = "This Will Strengthen the Party"
command = { type = dissent which = -1 }
}
}
#########################################################################
# Republican National Convention - 1936
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event = {
id = 3735
random = no
country = USA
name = "Republican National Convention - 1936"
desc = "With both the Hoover administration and a failed Coolidge attempt at the Oval Office weighing heavily on their chests, the Republicans went into the 1936 National Convention seeking a new hope for the party. Alfred Landon, the former Governor of Kansas was selected to be the on the Republican ticket, with William Franklin Knox as his running mate,"
picture = "alf_landon"
style = 0
date = { day = 21 month = june year = 1936 }
action_a = {
name = "So Be It"
command = { type = dissent which = -1 }
}
}
