The death of Eugene V. Debs · word from the sanitarium outside Chicago
As printed: STORMY CAREER OF EUGENE DEBS ENDS IN DEATH
ContextEugene V. Debs helped found the American Railway Union and the Socialist Party, led the Pullman strike of 1894, and ran five times for president, the last time in 1920 from a federal prison cell, where he was serving a sentence under the Espionage Act for an antiwar speech; President Harding released him in 1921. Nephritis is an inflammatory disease of the kidneys.
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