Word: saccovanzetti
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...parents. Gene Lyons grew up on the rowdy East Side where his family soon became sweatshop workers. He turned radical instead of rowdy, grew up among U.S. Communist stalwarts and was toughened in proletarian struggle by two-and-a-half years of feverish work as propagandist member of the SaccoVanzetti Defense Committee. For a year he edited in Manhattan the Soviet Russia Pictorial. From this he graduated to assistant director of the New York office of TASS, then as now the official news agency of the Soviet State. Its director succeeded in interesting President Karl A. Bickel of United Press...
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