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...feel that the credit accorded to me was greatly exaggerated; for without the work of the local committee of able and earnest men and women, and the strong support of one of our local papers, the Kenosha Labor, directed by its editor, Paul Porter, what I felt and thought and expressed would have availed little...
...Born in Kenosha, Wis., Orson before the age of ten was a professional actor, ma-ing $25 a day dressed up as Peter Rabbit in Chicago's Marshall Field's. At twelve, in the progressive Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Ill., Orson was staging his first production of Julius Caesar-in which he played the Soothsayer, Cassius and Marc Antony with relay-race technique...
Last week one of the bypaths along the proletarian road wound to a temporary terminus in the Eagles Club Auditorium at Kenosha, Wis. Assembled there, in a confused and earnest clot, were 150 delegates to the 21st national convention of the Socialist Party. Among them few were more confused, none was more earnest than their three-time candidate for the Presidency of the U. S., grey Norman Thomas...
Leader of the anti-R. O. T. C. group was Mrs. Mary Davison Bradford, 82, daughter of a Wisconsin pioneer and onetime superintendent of Kenosha's schools. Mrs. Bradford has written a salty, widely-read autobiography,* is equally famed in Kenosha for her knitting. Clicking her knitting needles faster & faster, Mrs. Bradford marshaled her troops. When Legionnaires got 275 high-school students to sign a petition asking for R. O. T. C., Mrs. Bradford's group got a larger number to petition the Board of Education for a course in hog-calling. One day, to the astonishment...
Last week Kenosha's voters went to the polls, figuratively carrying Mrs. Bradford on their shoulders, swamped...