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Poem, 1940.

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Poem entitled "Like Judas, Wasn't It?" written by Beecher in 1940 about John L. Lewis' endorsement of Wendell Willkie and referring to the 1932 Progressive Miners strike in Illinois against the Peabody Coal Company and Lewis; with an explanatory note from Beecher written March 21, 1973.

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Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944

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Beecher, John, 1904-1980

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