Word: williams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WILLIAM ALRICK Seattle, Wash...
...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...
...tweeds, sucking on his pipe, or a cigarette, or a cigar-whatever came to hand-grey-haired, paunchy and tentatively smiling, the graduate of Franklin High School moved into the darkness of top leadership. The ancient William Foster was made chairman-actually, a secondary job. Eugene Dennis, as general secretary, became the little commissar...
Also Bruce Harriman, C. Lee Hoefinghoff, James F. Hornig, Frederic D. Houghteling, Richard W. Kimball, Hale M. Knight, Robert B. Lukingbeal, William D. Mulholland, Jr., Charles A. O'Brien, Walter B. Rauschenbush, and Lyle H. Ritchie...
...verse called 'A Few Christian Poems' won honorable mention for William Akin Morgan '51 of Birmingham, Alabama and Little Hall...