An activist looks back, 1927-1970.

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An activist looks back, 1927-1970.

Collection of autobiographical essays detailing his life from 1927 to 1970. Included are essays on the National Maritime Union, labor movements and strikes, unemployment, communism, and President Hoover. Taken together, these essays form his autobiography, An activist looks back.

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National Maritime Union

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The National Maritime Union (NMU) was an American labor union founded in May 1937 representing workers in the merchant marine. It affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in July 1937. After a failed merger with a different maritime group in 1988, the union merged with the Seafarers International Union of North America in 2001....

Dartmouth College. Class of 1964

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Jones, James Moore, 1904-1994.

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