Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Woodrum is in charge of the WPA investigation ordered by the House when it voted the President another $100,000,000 for relief. Mr. Woodrum set out to explore the Workers Alliance of America-WPA, unemployed & reliefers' union which claims 400,000 members, of whom 150,000 pay 10? to $1 monthly dues.* Leaders of the Alliance are shrewd, sharp-nosed President David Lasser and shrewd, sharp-nosed Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. Mr. Woodrum put President Lasser on the stand first...
...have no connection with the Communist Party in any way, shape or form . . . and never have had," replied Mr. Lasser, who resigned last year from the Socialist Party...
...responded Mr. Benjamin, but he explained that, when and if the Communists threaten arrival at their goal by peaceful revolution, he expects the "special privileged minority" to resort to force and violence...
...Mr. Benjamin then ticked off the names of two Communist members of the Alliance executive board and a third who "used to be." He professed surprise when Republican Richard Wigglesworth of Massachusetts ticked off the names of three more...
...John Albericon visited his doctor. He then went to see the district president of the United Mine Workers of America, who referred him to pickets at one of the little "wagon mines" which supply the odd-lot coal trade in northern West Virginia. The pickets let the mine supply Mr. Albericon after reading this entry on a medical prescription blank (as noted last week by Scripps-Howard Reporter Fred W. Perkins...