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Eugene Debs’Life RetoldNew Volume“Eugene Debs, Rebel, Labor Leader, Prophet, is the title of a new biography of the Terre Haute socialist, and humanitarian which has just recentlybeen published. .The author of the book isDavid F. Selvin, San Francisconewspaper man and editoi ofSan Francisco Labor.The book is written with itsappeal directed to junior and senior high school students although adults will find it is an interesting and absorbing storyof the life of Debs.It will be of especial interestto Terre Haute persons because most of Debs life was lived in Terre Haute.Much of the book deals with the American Railway Union, the first industrial type union ever organized in the countryand its demise after the famed Pullman boycott and strike of1894.The book goes into detail in this interesting and tempestuous stage of the life of Debs.Was Fulbright ScholarSelvin has worked as a statistician, newspaper reporter, and labor editor but chiefly as a consultant in public relations to trade unions. In 1961-62 he worked as a senior Fulbright research scholar at the LondonSchool of Economics.Selvin and his wife have three sons, the youngest of whom is a high school student.It was through' him, Selvin writes, “that I discovered theGO FOR CRUISEWASHINGTON lt;AP)—Presi-dent Johnson entertained Latin American ambassadors and represetatives to the Orgai-zation of American States Wednesday night in a Potomac River cruise aboard the yachtSequoia.One ambassador reportedthere was little serious conversation during the cruise. He said Johnson was cheerful, relaxed and full of stories and jokes.Two color films were shown, one of the President’s visit to Mexico City in 1965 and the other of his Texas ranch. A buffet of shrimp, rice, lamb and ice cream was served.TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE.66ISgenerals and presidents but few of labor people. That led me, first of all to do a biography of Sam Gompers andthen this one about Gene Debs, ANNIVERSARY CRUISEwho has always been a kind of folk hero of mine. As one8th Street, when the home is open to the public on Sunday afternoons from 2 to 4 p.m.young people’s shelves in our libraries had little to offer anyone interested in the labor movement or its leaders. There were countless biographies ofdeeply involved in trade unionism, I have long been fascinated by the dramatic and meteoric rise of the American Railway Union and its equally rapid demise or perhaps destruction is the word. I wanted to tell young people about it and about Gene Debs.”The book contains several illustrations furnished by courtesy of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation of Terre Haute.It is published by Lothrop, Lee Shepard, 419 Park Avenue, South, New York. It can be obtained at local book stores or at the Debs Home, 451 N.WASHINGTON (UPI) —President Johnson and the capital’s Latin American diplomatic corps went cruising down the Potomac in the Navy yacht Sequoia Wednesday night. The outing was part of the White House’s observance of the fifth anniversary of the Alliance for Progress.EDUCATOR HONOREDCOLLEGE PARK. Md. (AP) —Dr. E. C. Stevenson, head of Purdue University’s department of horticulture, was designated a Fellow of the AmericanSociety for Horticultural Science Wednesday.
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Terre Haute Tribune
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 18, 1966
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