Word: gurley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escaped from on a weekend, Gunther has a lot to cover. Or to look at it another way, he has endless opportunities to quote from other Hollow Worlders whose subjects are more specialized. His book is, in fact, an anthology of the maxims of Russell Lynes, David Riesman, Helen Gurley Brown, Vance Packard, Betty Friedan and William H. Whyte...
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who "would be chairman of the American Communist Party if the McCarran Act permitted it to have officers," held forth like a queen for almost two hours. She reminisced about her lifelong fight for a socialist America "in the plain simple language of the workers--no Madison Avenue terms; the bosses aren't the establishment...
...hall are the offices of HUAC's investigators. One office has a large wall map of the United States. Red pins in the map show the location of Communist Party headquarters. A large illustrated chart of the American CP hangs in another office. The rather grandmotherly face of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, chairman of the Party, occupies the center of the top row of this chart. She is surrounded by the faces of other Party higher-ups, most of whom look surly...
...against party officers for failure to register as Communist agents. In an obvious attempt to minimize the legal damage, the party last week dropped-at least for the record-all but three of its titular officials. Left with the possibility of five-year prison sentences were Party Chairman Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, General Secretary Gus Hall and National Secretary Benjamin Davis...
...room-were crowded 4,394 voting delegates and 405 nonvoting delegates from the Soviet Union and 80 other countries. They ranged from giants like Red China to pygmies like Martinique and San Marino. There were such old war-hens of the party as the U.S.'s grandmotherly Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 71, and overblown Dolores Ibarruri, the famed La Pasionaria of the Spanish Civil War. And there were men whose hands are bloodied by countless executions, like Hungary's sad-eyed Janos Kadar and Argentina's fat Victorio Codovilla, who once was Stalin's top agent...