Word: hillquit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland's vast Municipal Auditorium, but in a smaller chamber than Republicans will occupy for their national convention next week, another party last week held a convention. On the walls, in true political style, hung Gargantuan portraits of the party's departed heroes: Morris Hillquit, Victor Berger, Eugene V. Debs, Karl Marx. The Socialist Convention which assembled below these familiar images was no peace gathering. Not since 1919, when the party split over allegiance to the Third International had it been so divided...
Died. Morris Hillquit, 64, national chairman of the Socialist Party, longtime Socialist spokesman and writer (History of Socialism in the United States, from...