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...Died. Ella Alexander Boole, 93, retired world president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, defeated candidate for Congress on the 1920 Prohibition "Send a Mother to the Senate" ticket; of a stroke; in Brooklyn. With the battle cry, "Tremble, King Alcohol! We Shall Grow Up!", Ohio-born Ella Boole, widow of a Methodist minister, helped pressure Congress into passing the 18th (Prohibition) Amendment...
Despite the fact that it played seven home games both years. Yale drew fewer people this year than last. Nevertheless, with an average of over 30,000 people per game both years, the Ella continued to reign supreme in one field of athletic endeavor...
...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...
...time she was taken to a convalescent home at Richlandtown, Pa. last month, tiny, 89-year-old Mrs. Ella Reeve Ware Cohen Omholt-known for half a century in hobo jungles and union halls as "Mother Bloor"*-had served the Communist Party with a generosity which few U.S. leftists had equaled. Hot-tongued, warmhearted, indomitable Mother Bloor was a rarity in the party's ranks-a genuine, old-fashioned American radical, whose roots ran deep into the U.S. past...
...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...