Word: bochkowski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government's charge was based on evidence that "from at least late 1934 or early 1935 to at least some time in 1936" Burck was a member of the Communist Party. Technically, the Government had a case. Born in Poland, Cartoonist Burck (original name: Yakko Bochkowski) came to the U.S. at ten. During the Depression, he was a frequent contributor to Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, and one day in 1934 he took a party card from a persistent editor in the Worker's office to "keep him quiet." In 1935 he went to Moscow to sell...
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