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    Victor Luitpold Berger (February 28, 1860 – August 7, 1929) was an Austrian–American socialist politician and journalist who was a founding member of the...
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  • "Socialist" label) to Congress on the Union Labor ticket in 1886. Victor L. Berger was one of the prime movers of sewer socialism, often compared to Robert...
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  • by U.S. District Court Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis against Rep. Victor L. Berger, a Congressman for Wisconsin's 5th district and the founder of the...
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    and 1920), while the party also elected two U.S. representatives (Victor L. Berger and Meyer London), dozens of state legislators, more than 100 mayors...
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  • Berger (1911–1980), US Ambassador Sandy Berger (1945–2015), American attorney and politician Thomas R. Berger (1933–2021), Canadian politician Victor...
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    to describe the socialist desire to "drain" the "capitalist swamp". Victor L. Berger (1860–1929), who in his book Broadsides referred to changing the capitalist...
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    was also the wife of the prominent democratic socialist politician Victor L. Berger. Meta Schlichting was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to parents from...
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    Act are Austrian-American socialist congressman and newspaper editor Victor L. Berger, labor leader and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate, Eugene...
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    Commission Chairman Joseph E. Davies and Socialist former Congressman Victor L. Berger. Primary elections were held on March 19. Davies easily defeated progressive...
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    Victor L. Berger from the House of Representatives in 1919 under Section 3 after being convicted of treason under the Espionage Act of 1917. Berger's...
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    City's Lower East Side. Together with Eugene V. Debs and Congressman Victor L. Berger, Hillquit was one of the leading public faces of American socialism...
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  • [citation needed] Doris Berger was the eldest daughter of Socialist Congressman Victor Berger and Socialist organizer/feminist Meta Berger and held a law degree...
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    only once: it was used to block Socialist Party of America member Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin—convicted of violating the Espionage Act for opposing...
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    exhaustively read socialist literature provided to him by Milwaukee publisher Victor L. Berger and other independent socialists. Debs converted to the socialist cause...
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    Emil Seidel being elected as the mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Victor L. Berger was elected to the United States House of Representatives. The party...
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  • player Doris Hursley, co-creator of General Hospital and daughter of Victor L. Berger Andy Hurley, Fall Out Boy Mike Huwiler, Olympic athlete; MLS player...
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    (1909–1911) Arthur W. Kopp (R) Irvine Lenroot (R) 62nd (1911–1913) Victor L. Berger (Soc) Michael E. Burke (D) Thomas F. Konop (D) 63rd (1913–1915) Michael...
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    Representatives while John C. Chase was elected as mayor of Haverhill. Victor L. Berger led the party in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a slate of candidates received...
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  • took a vote. Clark would serve a term in Congress from 1901 to 1907. Victor L. Berger (SP-Wisconsin) was not seated after his election to the House in 1918...
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    McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America. Random House. ISBN 081297302X. Navasky, Victor S. (1980). Naming Names. Hill and Wang. ISBN 08090-01837. Powers, Richard...
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    only twice since the American Civil War: in 1919 and 1920, it blocked Victor L. Berger, a member of the Socialist Party who had won both elections, from taking...
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    had the support of the right wing in the party, for the nomination. Victor L. Berger proposed Carl D. Thompson for the nomination and it was seconded by...
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    nominee lost the general election to Socialist Victor L. Berger. For the next decade, Stafford and Berger alternated as representatives for this Milwaukee-based...
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  • Reprimands Sikes For Financial Misconduct, New York Times (July 30, 1976). Richard L. Lyons, House Censures Rep. Wilson of California, Washington Post (June 11...
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    Debs was visited in jail by the Milwaukee socialist newspaper editor Victor L. Berger, who in Debs's words "came to Woodstock, as if a providential instrument...
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    of the 14th Amendment had been invoked since 1919 when it stopped Victor L. Berger, convicted of violating the Espionage Act for his anti-militarist views...
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  • music critic at the Los Angeles Times Victor L. Berger – socialist politician and journalist Peter L. Berger – sociologist Gustav Bergmann – philosopher...
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  • York: Oxford University Press, 1990; pp. 245–249. O'Rourke, William (1993). "L: Michael Harrington". Signs of the literary times: Essays, reviews, profiles...
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  • received 5.9% of the popular vote. The first Socialist congressman, Victor L. Berger, had been elected in 1910. By the beginning of 1912, there were 1,039...
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  • Pearl Andrews Paul Avrich Kuwasi Balagoon Jack Barnes Edward Bellamy Victor L. Berger Alexander Berkman Murray Bookchin Earl Browder Étienne Cabet James...
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