[lbo-talk] doom

[Gar Lipow]

Jim Devine
> at the start of the 20th century, there was a millionaire in the
> Chicago North Shore area (in Winnetka) named Willam Bross Lloyd (son
> of the newspaperman and philanthropist Henry Demarest Lloyd), who
> helped to fund the Socialist Party and ran for U.S. senator as a
> Socialist in 1918. He was tried in 1920 for being a communist as a
> result of the Palmer Raids (he one of the organizers of the Communist
> Labor party in America) and defended by Clarence Darrow.
>
> There's a statue of him, hidden behind some bushes, with a socialist
> slogan on it. I think it may be "workers of the world unite!"
>
> There's also a beach named after his family.

Hmm I passed along family history before, and it turned out that it
was not so accurate. So take this next point for what it is worth - 
family legends passed down  to someone with a bad memory: But in the
40's and 50's according to my late father anytime you were at any type
of left event, and the time  came to thank the donors there would
always, always be a contribution from Charlie Chaplin. Any time you
were collecting money for a left cause you  made sure to ask Charlie 
Chaplin, because you could count on him to give.