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Died. U. S. Junior Senator Frank Gooding of Idaho, 68, onetime (1905-07) Republican Governor of Idaho, hardy antagonist in 1907 of the late "Big Bill" Haywood, whose supporters daily threatened the Governor's life, recently an active member of the Senate committee investigating coal strike conditions; of cancer; in Gooding, Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 2, 1928 | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...your issue of May 28 in an article on the death of Wilham D. Haywood, you refer to the I. W. W. men convicted of violating war laws and say that most of them are still in Leavenworth prison. We are glad to state that every one of them has long since been released by pardon of the President and that there are not now any federal political or industrial prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...worth reading. The prosecution addressed 150,000 words to the jury, the defense used 250,000. Everyone rather expected Borah to win. He might have won in the end had not a man who later admitted killing Governor Steunenberg made some absurd charges against Haywood which discredited his earlier incriminations. Haywood was freed after 18 months in jail, a famous man and to all dissatisfied workmen a hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Death of Haywood | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Washington, to Congress, to the Senate, to a great portion of respect and honor. Clarence Darrow every year more saddened by wrongs as untouchable as stars, could do not better than go on defending queer men, among them, two pale, sadistic murderers and a country school teacher. Big Bill Haywood took advantage of his fame. He organized the I. W. W. "We are the roughneck gang," he said. When the War came he refused to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Death of Haywood | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...jury which investigated Bill Haywood's objections to fighting condemned him together with about 40 other Wobblies to go to Leavenworth to jail. The Wobblies appealed; when the Grand Jury upheld the verdict against them they were assembled and sent to Leavenworth where most of them are still doing time. But Big Bill Haywood had boarded a boat and sailed to Europe. He did not pay his passage; burly, black with dirt, pathetically tough, Bill Haywood stoked the furnace of the ship that fear had made him board. In Moscow, where he went when he landed, Big Bill Haywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Death of Haywood | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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