Word: bellylaughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the broad, bellylaugh stories Oscar Ameringer has to tell are doubtless the same stories he told the tenant farmers of Oklahoma when he went among them as a Socialist organizer. Angriest pages of his book are those in which he describes-and explains-the plight of those downtrodden U. S. citizens whom other upstanding U. S. citizens ("the rabble on top") turned into Okies. He moved up to Milwaukee, joined Victor Berger on the famed Leader and fought to keep that paper going (as it did) in spite of wartime persecution by Postmaster Burleson...