Word: browder
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...Browder's life was replete with such ironies. The party he came to head was forever caricatured for its heavy foreign accent and its European-immigrant membership. Yet he, the man who brought the party to its zenith, proudly traced his family's history in the New World back to the 1650s. His grandfather had been a circuit-riding Methodist parson and his father a Kansas homesteader and schoolteacher. Browder began as a good capitalist apparatchik-a department store cashboy at the age of nine. He joined the fledgling party in the early 1920s after serving two jail...
Under the twin effects of the Depression and Browder's American-tailored revolutionary doctrine ("We have no different definition of revolution than that given by Thomas Jefferson," he liked to say), the party drew ever more members-close...
...Browder also drew ever more criticism...
...Browder became so identified with a policy of coexistence, in fact, that the Soviets had no further use for him after the fighting gave way to the cold war, and ordered his ouster. He spent the last quarter-century of his life in bittersweet retirement, first with his Russian-born wife Raissa in Yonkers, N.Y., and, after her death, with one of his three sons (all are professors of mathematics) in Princeton, N.J. Between puffs on his corncob pipe and games of chess, he had plenty of time to field queries from inquiring historians. Asked in 1971 whether he identified...
Died. Earl Browder, 82, former general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party (see THE NATION...