Word: haywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...separating from her husband. Guests flocked to her salon, enmeshed her in their tangled affairs. Sculptor Jo Davidson brought Journalist Hutchins Hapgood, who brought Lincoln Steffens, who brought some young college graduates: John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson. They were followed by Emma Goldman, "Big Bill" Haywood, Alexander Berkman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Max Eastman, Frances Perkins, Margaret Sanger, Mary Heaton Vorse, many others. The impressionable hostess, vibrating to labor leaders, radical journalists, jailbirds, futurist artists and philosophical anarchists as sensitively as she had responded to Florentine decadents, soon found her new companions too headstrong...
...spoken of as a coming man by many a highly-paid hack. He was taken in by Mabel Dodge, whose Fifth Avenue salon was then running full blast. Her possessiveness eventually became a nuisance, but at her house Reed met the man who changed his life: William ("Big Bill") Haywood, famed I.W.W. leader. When Haywood told him about the Paterson silk-mill strike, Reed went to see it himself, got arrested, spent four days in jail. That was the beginning of his revolutionary education...
...years to be of use in 1936. Forgotten is the picture of the young politician who in 1894 helped elect William John McConnell Governor of Idaho and promptly married the Governor's daughter Mamie. Forgotten is the young attorney who in 1907 prosecuted William ("Big Bill") Haywood and two others of the Western Federation of Miners for instigating the fatal bombing of ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg. Forgotten is the fact that Prosecutor Borah lost the case to a defense attorney named Clarence Darrow...
Since he had helped convict Haywood Patterson in 1933 when he was State's Attorney General, Thomas Edmund Knight Jr. had risen to be Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. The defense soon pointed out that the State constitution forbade a man's holding two public jobs for pay. While Thomas Knight "laughed off" this objection, Judge William Callahan breezily overruled a plea that Knight be barred as special prosecutor at Trial No. 4 at Decatur...
Since a live man is better off than a dead one, and since Haywood Patterson will probably be safer behind bars for the next few years anyhow, the defense could count the verdict something of a triumph. In fairly good spirits Counsel Leibowitz was proceeding with the case of another Scottsboro boy when the prosecution suddenly challenged written medical testimony made at the second trial by a physician now too ill to go to court and substantiate it orally. Thereupon Judge Callahan indefinitely postponed all further trials, ordered the prisoners back to jail in Birmingham...