Word: haywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Revolutionary Songs (Tues. 3:30 p.m., CBS). The Liberty Song, Bunker Hill, The Toast, Lamentation over Boston, Ode to Fourth of July resurrected from 18th-Century manuscripts by Antiquarian Elie Siegmeister, sung for the first time on radio by Soprano Hollace Shaw, Tenor Charles Haywood...
...born with an urge to protest. At 15, he followed his father into the Socialist Party, and soon he was deep in Leftist ferment. When World War Objector Earl Browder emerged from Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1920, William ZebuIon Foster and "Big Bill" Haywood had splintered away from the Debs Socialists, had formed "Communist" parties. Two years afterward, with Browder close at hand, they fused their factions into the Communist Party of the U. S. A., affiliated with the Third International, plunged into the underground era of Communism. Then to be known as a Red was to be hunted, beaten, jailed...
...Chicago. Agnostic, bitter opponent of capital punishment ("organized, legalized murder"), Darrow never prosecuted a case, never had a client executed. His great defenses: 1) Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, arrested (1894) on a charge of conspiracy in organizing an American Railway Union strike-acquitted; 2) William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood and colleagues, accused of plotting assassination (1905) of Idaho's Governor Steunenburg - acquitted; 3) Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, charged (1911) with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times Building- imprisoned; 4) Nathan F. Leopold Jr. and Richard A. Loeb, for murder (1924) of 13-year-old Bobby Franks-life...
...onto the field to play unbeaten, untied Alabama. As the game drew to a close, it looked as if Vanderbilt and Alabama would each end the season with one defeat: the score stood 7-to-6 in Vanderbilt's favor. Then Alabama's portly Coach Thomas waved Haywood ("Sandy") Sanford, 200-lb. sophomore, into the game. The ball lay on Vanderbilt's 14-yd. line over at the edge of the field, in Alabama's possession and in imminent danger of being lost on downs. Sandy Sanford stepped back and at a 45-degree angle booted...
...wouldn't have minded that bed, or any bed, when "The Game That Kills" came on. In this picture, which seemed to have been whipped together on a rainy Sunday afternoon, Rita Haywood, a little girl with a Simone Simon complex, saves a professional hockey team from the clutches of a gambling concern. After watching the team play for about an hour, we wondered if it was really worth her while...