Word: bloor
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...Hire. Strikebreaker Bloor Schleppey (Bloor was his mother's maiden name*) was born in Crawfordsville, Ind., got a law degree from Indiana University in 1912, then broke into the newspaper business in 1916 on the short-lived Milwaukee Daily News (Schleppey claims he was managing editor; oldtimers remember him as a reporter). In the next years, Schleppey worked for the New York World and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, put in a term as a Washington reporter for the Hearst chain. In 1934 he went to work for the Indianapolis Publishers Association and started his career as a labor...
...famed Communist agitator of the 1920s and '30s, "Mother Bloor" (whose real name was Ella Reeve Omholt...
With Mother Bloor in The Jungle...
...true that Ella Reeve Bloor "helped Upton Sinclair investigate the horrors of Chicago's stockyards, which he dramatized in his novel The Jungle [TiME, Aug. 20]." My investigating was done in the autumn of 1904, and E.R.B. had nothing to do with...
Died. Ella Reeve Ware Cohen Omholt ("Mother Bloor"), 88, patron saint of the U.S. Communist Party; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Richlandtown, Pa. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...