Word: rogin
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Unfashionable Cause. No. 54 was Economist Val R. (for Rogin) Lorwin, 46, adopted son of eminent Labor Economist Lewis Lorwin, who in 1934 went to Washington to work for the Taft family on the state papers of President William Howard Taft. Soon, he moved on. Lorwin and his wife joined the Socialist Party in 1935; with eager energy they plunged into work for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, a bitter Socialist rival of the Communist-led Sharecroppers Union. Lorwin worked in several New Deal agencies until the war when he was an Army lieutenant assigned...