Word: browder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the U.S. Communist Party and its onetime boss, old (68), grey Earl Browder, both at a decrepit pass, a 1952 federal perjury rap against Browder was dropped by the Government. One of the Government's key witnesses was dead, the other "unavailable...
Divorced. Earl Russell Browder, 67, Kansas-born, sometime No. 1 U.S. Communist, 1936 and 1940 Communist candidate for U.S. President, who, following Moscow's sentiments, cooperated with capitalism during World War II, was purged when the party line shifted in 1946; by Gladys Browder, 67, whom he deserted in 1924; after 48 years of marriage, one son (Browder had three other sons by a Russian-born wife whom he married without troubling to get a U.S. divorce); in Kansas City, Kans...
...Browder now lives in Yonkers, a dim, muddled man, wondering just why U.S. Communism could never acquire a true American accent...
...when new theorizers carried U.S. Communism almost as high as the old Smolny gang had dreamed. That was the time (subject of later volumes) when U.S. intellectuals lovingly tended the shoots that had grown from the Communist roots, ready for the fatuous aphorism of Earl Browder that "Communism is the Americanism of the twentieth century...
Asked if he considered it possible that he would ever again play a role in American politics. Earl Browder, 65. head of the Communist Party. U.S.A.. during its 14 most powerful years (1931-45), drew thoughtfully on his pipe and replied: "Realistically, there are no grounds on which anyone could base such a prediction...