Word: minden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telegram from home: ". . . Local Union 688, with a membership of 750, wish to protest the speech of John L. Lewis attacking the Honorable President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party." Local Union 2399 in Richeyville, Pa. similarly instructed its Delegate Elgie Crawford. Delegate E. D. Hosey of Minden, W. Va. announced that his home folks were baffled and "backing President Roosevelt 100% for a third term." Like-minded were 26 more locals, 27 delegates who dared dissent from disgruntled Mr. Lewis. His resolutions committee, framing a formal expression for the convention, made nary a mention of Franklin Roosevelt, soothingly...