Word: vachel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states, And as the crumbling towers fall down, Write ALTGELD on your gates! Thus adjured the outraged New York Sun in 1893. Called anarchist (for freeing three of the Haymarket rioters) and blamed for the great Pullman strike was Illinois' liberal Governor John Peter Altgeld. Years afterwards Poet Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem about him (The Eagle That Is Forgotten}, Biographer Carl Sandburg called him Illinois' greatest son after Abraham Lincoln. Last week, the University of Illinois law school prepared to inscribe over its doors-Altgeld Hall...