Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When young (33), studious-looking Herbert A. Philbrick of Melrose, Mass. took the witness stand that afternoon, he was still a secret, dues-paying, in-good-standing member of the Massachusetts Communist Party. He was secure in its confidence and even a minor functionary in the underground apparatus...
...church work, helped to organize a group known as the Cambridge Youth Council. Almost at once, he spotted Reds in the fold. He took his suspicions to the FBI, was asked to stick with it and keep the FBI informed. Two years later, he was a member of the Young Communist League, from 1944 on a member of the Communist Party. The FBI paid his expenses: party dues, the cost of renting a recording machine on which he dictated some of his regular reports...
That was all right with everybody but the young bucks of the town, and chief among them was the village president's son Lorenz ("Hot Rod") Froelich. At dinner almost every night, Hot Rod, a big, 24-year-old redhead, would complain to his father that Bonduel was sleeping in a rut while progress passed by. The village board, Hot Rod argued, should wake up, give the kids a roller-skating rink, and bring small industry into Bonduel. Old John Froelich didn't pay too much attention...
...night in a tavern, the young bucks got together: they would file their own slate for the village elections. Hot Rod would run against his father; another young fellow would oppose his father-in-law for a seat on the village board. They rounded up 48 votes, figured that they thus controlled better than half of the votes usually cast. The trick was to pretend that their campaign was all a gag, so that the oldsters wouldn't get stirred...
...hard to keep in Bonduel. The oldsters soon realized what was up, and campaigning began in earnest. Hot Rod made a speech: "Some of these Bonduel people must have been born old. All they do is sit on their fannies. Elect us and we'll do something." "These young fellows haven't got enough experience," replied John Froelich. John's wife added her two-cents' worth at the dinner table: "Lorenz, you quit this silly business. You're getting too big for your breeches...