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...blow from a society which had never quite suited him anyhow. He had to be committed to the Northern State Hospital, where he died of "general paralysis of the insane." The hospital sent Frankie all of Waldron Sr.'s worldly goods: a crumpled leather cigarette case, a Seattle streetcar token, and a worn 25? piece...
...early history was an internal struggle for political power. One of its clawing rivals for leadership was William Foster, head of the Trade Union Educational League, the party's labor decoy. He was born in Taunton, Mass, in 1881, onetime worker in a rendering plant, seaman, streetcar motorman, homesteader, gandy dancer, Wobbly and hobo. Stalin ended all rivalries in 1930 by enshrining Earl Browder at the top. Browder, born in Wichita, Kans. in 1891, was a onetime bookkeeper for a drug house, flute player, mystic and draft resister in World War I, for which he went to prison...
...Route Frelupt, he operated as a Red organizer. He used many aliases. Somewhere along the line he decided that he would become "Eugene Dennis." So far as he was concerned, Francis X. Waldron Jr. was dead and buried. Not a trace of him remained, not even a Seattle streetcar token...
Playwright Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire) was paying the price of international fame. A Tokyo producer, making out an application to SCAP for permission to put on two of Williams' plays, listed their titles (retranslated from the Japanese) as The Zoological Garden within the Glass Enclosure and A Motorbus by Nickname Hope...
Within one hour after midnight one night last week, every bus, streetcar and subway train on Philadelphia's 1,500 miles of transit system had been rolled to garage, barn or yard and stopped. Local 234 of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union was on strike. Next morning Philadelphians got to work as best they could, through four inches of snow. The Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads ran extra trains; hundreds of private car pools went into operation; big companies used their truck fleets to pick up employees; and thousands of people simply walked...