Word: zebulon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others: Colonel Greenway of Arizona, Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, Zebulon B. Vance of North Carolina, all in Statuary Hall in the Capitol; Abraham Lincoln in the Capitol Rotunda: General Phil Sheridan in Sheridan Circle...
...years ago when the late great Liberal Tom Johnson became Mayor, was host last week to the eighth convention of the Communist Party, U. S. A. More than 3,000 ill-dressed spectators filled Prospect Auditorium when Party Secretary Earl Browder, in the absence of sick Chairman William Zebulon Foster, opened the meeting beneath loops of blood-red bunting and a painting of a worker bursting from his chains. No one without a scarlet party card was admitted to executive sessions, but the party organ, the New York Daily Worker, carried full and enthusiastic reports of the doings and deliberations...
...past three months William Zebulon Foster, Communist candidate for President, traveled 17,000 mi., addressed 70 meetings, was expelled from Zeigler, Ill., arrested in Los Angeles, Scranton, Lawrence, Mass. With 34 more speaking dates in 13 states to go, harried Candidate Foster last week collapsed in Chicago with an attack of angina pectoris. His doctor said, "It would be absolute suicide for him to continue his tour." Few days later, recuperating in his Bronx home, Candidate Foster wryly reminded reporters of a noteworthy fact: "Today I bear the unique distinction of being the only candidate supporting payment of the Bonus...
...Angeles the "Red Squad" is not a body of Communist storm troops but a group of muscular policemen who go about the city discouraging radical agitation. Last week the Red Squad permitted William Zebulon Foster, Communist candidate for President of the U. S., to utter the first eleven words of a campaign speech to 1,000 partisans assembled on the Plaza. Week prior the police had broken up a Communist meeting, shot one Comrade...
...President the party nominated William Zebulon Foster, twotime (1924 & 1928) Communist candidate; for Vice President one James W. Ford, a Negro whose grandfather was lynched...