Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frankie Waldron, with his wavy brown hair, his snappy clothes and his electric smile, was as handsome as a junior Arrow Collar Man. Frankie's family was far from well-to-do, but Frankie danced and wisecracked his way into Franklin High School's social upper crust. He was manager of the basketball team, manager of the senior play, and a passionate, if reedy-voiced, star of the debating team. Just about everybody who knew him in Seattle back in 1923 predicted that Frankie Waldron would...
...motorcycle which he could never make run, worked at a few after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High, was to go to college. Then father went stony broke...
...freshman year was his last year. He worked at odd jobs, to help support the family, and hung around Seattle's A.F.L. Labor Temple. There he listened to lectures delivered by old Wobblies, old Socialists and some advocates of communism. Franklin High's lively graduate had become a sullen young man, outraged by his family's plight and the collapse of his long-cherished plans for college. Half in despair, half in defiance, he formally joined the Communist Party...
...tweeds, sucking on his pipe, or a cigarette, or a cigar-whatever came to hand-grey-haired, paunchy and tentatively smiling, the graduate of Franklin High School moved into the darkness of top leadership. The ancient William Foster was made chairman-actually, a secondary job. Eugene Dennis, as general secretary, became the little commissar...
Dennis' chief Earl Browder was sent to jail for the popular Communist felony of passport fraud. Robert Minor, an elderly and bemused ex-St. Louis Post-Dispatch cartoonist, was given the temporary job of boss. But Browder, let out of jail by Franklin Roosevelt, got his old job back and picked up the next line from Moscow. Hitler had marched on Russia. The new and urgent line was to make peace with the capitalist U.S., piously preach collaboration of all "democratic" forces against their common fascist enemy. Roosevelt, who had been denounced as a "dirty warmonger," was a hero...