Word: hoboes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A.F.L. President William Green noted the 43rd annual convention of the Hoboes of America, meeting in Tucson, sent, Hobo King Jeff Davis a fraternal greeting "While the members of the A.F.L. believe in steady jobs and the members of your organization are conscientious objectors, we entertain a sympathetic interest in your problems...
...time she was taken to a convalescent home at Richlandtown, Pa. last month, tiny, 89-year-old Mrs. Ella Reeve Ware Cohen Omholt-known for half a century in hobo jungles and union halls as "Mother Bloor"*-had served the Communist Party with a generosity which few U.S. leftists had equaled. Hot-tongued, warmhearted, indomitable Mother Bloor was a rarity in the party's ranks-a genuine, old-fashioned American radical, whose roots ran deep into the U.S. past...
...City Council of Fredericksburg, Va. decided that the new abbreviated street signs reading "Jeff Davis Boulevard" were both confusing and improper. People might think they meant Hobo King Jeff Davis instead of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, the Council ruled. It ordered bigger signs to carry the full name "with all the dignity that great man decerves...
...West Point, and saw his first battle action in brushes with the Moros. Spent a year as an aide to his father's good friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, in 1907. He went on the U.S. expedition which seized Veracruz, Mexico in 1914, and scouted inland disguised as a hobo. When the U.S. entered World War I, MacArthur, then a major on staff duty, conceived the idea of a "Rainbow Division of National Guard troops from different states; though his superiors were hesitant to send National Guardsmen to France, he went over their heads, sold the idea to War Secretary...
...hobo who was looking for a handout on the street...