Word: gerson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party reins when the eleven Communist bosses (convicted of similar charges in 1949) are sent off to prison. Among them were familiar figures: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 60, national committee member and New York Daily Worker columnist; Party Theoretician Alexander Trachtenberg, 65, a product of Russia and Yale; Simon Gerson, 41, onetime candidate for New York City councilman and longtime party newspaperman...