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...Ella Reeve ("Mother") Bloor, an idealist rebel. She came from a fine old colonial family. When she was 14, she demanded that her name be taken off the rolls of the Presbyterian Church in Bridgeton, N.J., because she did not think it fair for some people to be destined for hell and others for heaven. She was, successively, a suffragette, Prohibitionist, Ethical Culturist, Single Taxer, a partisan of William Jennings Bryan, Eugene Debs and Upton Sinclair. When the Russian Revolution came along, she found the spiritual home for which she had searched so long...
...between headquarters in New York City and the party's Washington "apparatus," a group of Communists who occupied key observation posts in the U.S. Government. The apparatus was organized, said Chambers, by Harold Ware, a son of the Communist Party's 86-year-old veteran, Ella Reeve Bloor, and took its orders from "the head of the whole underground U.S. Communist Party"-J. Peters...
Executions of Old Bolsheviks were explained to Mother Bloor by showing her photographs of letters by Lenin. As translated by her interpreters these disparaged...
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...
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...