Word: bloor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time she was taken to a convalescent home at Richlandtown, Pa. last month, tiny, 89-year-old Mrs. Ella Reeve Ware Cohen Omholt-known for half a century in hobo jungles and union halls as "Mother Bloor"*-had served the Communist Party with a generosity which few U.S. leftists had equaled. Hot-tongued, warmhearted, indomitable Mother Bloor was a rarity in the party's ranks-a genuine, old-fashioned American radical, whose roots ran deep into the U.S. past...
...used the name Bloor-borrowed from a Welsh compatriot named Richard Bloor-as an alias while investigating the Chicago packinghouse industry in 1906. Fellow radicals took to calling her Mother Bloor, and the name stuck...
From the No. 1 Communist of the U.S., William Z. Foster, and some associates came a birthday posy for old Party Matriarch Mother (Ella Reeve) Bloor. "Your 88th birthday," they reminded her, "sees 850 million in the world who have moved away from the bloody way of imperialism...