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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Executions of Old Bolsheviks were explained to Mother Bloor by showing her photographs of letters by Lenin. As translated by her interpreters these disparaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Make America Better! | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

White-haired but exuberant and bouncing Ella Reeve Bloor, 75. "Mother" of U. S. Communism returned last fortnight from three months in the Soviet Union. Now the No. i female member of the Central Committee of the American Communist Party, with a record of twelve grandchildren and 36 arrests. Mother Bloor last week gave her impressions of Communism in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Make America Better! | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Elections. "There was only one candidate for an office," beamed Mother Bloor triumphantly, "because the nominations were made by such large groups-groups that represented everyone-that he was a unanimous choice! The election was the most democratic in the world. We can learn from Russia. We can strive, at least, to get America on the path of Democracy! The reason I did not want to stay in Russia, which I love so well, is that I wanted to come home to make America better! We have everything. We should be happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Make America Better! | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...concluded Mr. Bloor, "I had forgotten all about the local train to Wigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Misadventure at Winwick | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

Into the awe-struck silence of the courtroom spoke Coroner Sir Samuel Brighouse last week: "Bloor has openly, and I think very openly, admitted that it was through an error on his part that the unfortunate occurrence took place. I think that Bloor was carrying out his duties as faithfully and honestly and as well as he could. If you believe that you will return a verdict of Misadventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Misadventure at Winwick | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

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