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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed Communist agitator of the 1920s and '30s, "Mother Bloor" (whose real name was Ella Reeve Omholt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Strikebreaker | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old-Fashioned Radical | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

Died. Ella Reeve Ware Cohen Omholt ("Mother Bloor"), 88, patron saint of the U.S. Communist Party; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Richlandtown, Pa. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 20, 1951 | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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