Word: berger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berger 1L, who as representative of the University of Cincinnati, was last year elected president of the Federation and since has entered the law school, was forced to resign the office last winter because of serious illness...
Last week the Socialist Party dedicated a memorial radio station in Manhattan to Mr. Debs, giving the wave length his initials, WEVD. Also it announced that, at a recent meeting in Detroit, it had chosen Victor L. Berger, U. S. Congressman from Wisconsin, to succeed Eugene V. Debs as Chairman of the National Socialist Executive Committee...
...Berger, a florid, bustling, 67-year-old native of Austria-Hungary, used to teach school and dream Utopias in Milwaukee. Writing for newspapers led him into politics. He went as a delegate to the People's Party convention at St. Louis in 1896 and there began an agitation for the recognition of Eugene Victor Debs, then a labor organizer whom Mr. Berger had introduced to Marxism and whom Mr. Berger was to continue introducing for 30 years. When the Socialist National Committee was formed in 1898, Mr. Berger was of course on it. But not until 1910 did he attain...
During the War, along with Eugene Victor Debs, Victor L. Berger was sentenced to prison under the Espionage Act. Congress refused to admit him after his re-election in 1918, and again after another re-election in 1919. In 1923, Milwaukeeans sent him to Washington once more. This time he was received, the U. S. Supreme Court having meantime (in 1921) decided that the judge* who sent him to prison was unduly prejudiced against Teutons...
...successor of Eugene V. Debs, Mr. Berger might be expected to go through the motions of running for the U. S. Presidency next year. Eugene V. Debs ran time and again, polling nearly a million votes in 1912 and again in 1920, his last two campaigns.* But Mr. Berger is not likely to run. Doubtless Poet Henley's "Invictus"? is one of his favorite poems as it was Mr. Deb's. But Mr. Berger is a practical captain of his soul, an editor, an essayist, a politician but not a crusader. He refused to cruise abroad on Henry Ford...