Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the party split into two main factions, Trotskyist and Stalinist, Vincent Dunne became a Trotskyist, joined other Minnesota Trotskyists under the banner of the Socialist Workers Party...
...Dunnes-Miles, Grant and Vincent -moved in on Minneapolis industry in 1934. Of the three, Vincent is the blazingest ball of fire. Born in Minnesota's agricultural country, he streaked into the woods at an early age to be a lumberjack, joined the I.W.W. and became an ardent Wobbly revolutionist. In Minneapolis he signed up with the Communist Party...
...Minneapolis was an open-shop city with a settled dislike for union labor. Against that contempt Vincent Dunne hurled himself, with Brothers Grant and Miles by his side. They organized the truck drivers of the city, got a charter from Dan Tobin's A.F. of L. teamsters, and in 1934 staged two historic strikes. Heads were split, blood spilled, men killed; the employers' hard-boiled Citizens' Alliance was badly beaten. Trade unionism under the Dunne Brothers flourished in Minneapolis from then...
...Biddle announced that he would place before a grand jury charges of seditious conspiracy among Trotskyist leaders. That meant, among others, Vincent Dunne...
...retiring Herbert Wilcox, British producerdirector, kept the saga of Who? in mind while making Sunny II with his sparkling British star, Anna Neagle. Profiting by the lesson of No, No, Nanette (TIME, Dec. 30), which he made without featuring the musicomedy's best assets, the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, he plugs Who? for all it is worth. Four different orchestrations deliver it in ballad, tap, choral and semi-rumba rhythm. Three more Kern tunes (Sunny, D'Ya Love Me?, Two Little Blue Birds) are tossed in for good measure...