Word: abs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...angry roar subsided; the tailors broke into cheers. They and their children and grandchildren have been cheering the paper ever since. For Ab Cahan's Forward, biggest U.S. Yiddish-language daily, has been the most influential single institution in helping many immigrants adjust to American life. Last week at a dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, 1,500 admirers paid tribute to Ab Cahan (rhymes with Don) in celebration of his 90th birthday and his 48th year as editor of the Forward. From President Truman, Britain's Herbert Morrison, Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion...
During Manhattan's bitter, bloody garment strike of 1913, a crowd of angry strikers hurled bricks through the windows of the Jewish Daily Forward, which was urging a settlement. Nervy, frail Editor Abraham ("Ab") Cahan, who had done as much as any man to stir the workers' rebellion against the sweatshops, came out to face the crowd. "Whose windows do tailors come to break?" he demanded. "It's just like a husband who comes home angry and fretful ... whacks the kids around and smashes dishes . . . Will he go into any other house to smash the dishes...
Young Teacher. Ab Cahan was a young teacher in Vilna, and a Marxian Socialist, when the Czar's police began shadowing him. He fled to New York, got work in a cigar factory. To learn English well, 22-year-old Ab Cahan unashamedly went to grade school with children, working nights so that he could do so. He devoted his spare time to the Socialist and labor movements, by 1885 was editing the Socialist weekly Arbeiter Zeitung and writing perceptive short stories about East Side Jews. His novel, The Rise of David Levinsky, written in 1917, is still regarded...
Cahan substituted lively feature stories. To make his writers stop using long words, Ab would call in the elevator operator to see if he could understand their stories. He gave his readers such homely advice as urging mothers to see that their children carried handkerchiefs. When his sponsors protested such trivialities, Ab asked: "Since when is Socialism opposed to clean noses...
...good in 1933 for supporting Roosevelt. At Cahan's celebration last week, Union Boss David Dubinsky and others praised him as the man who had done more than anyone else to keep the garment workers' union free of Communist influence. When everyone else had finished, old Ab rose to respond, murmured: "I am happier than I ever was in my life. Brothers and sisters, I thank you millions of times." Words failing, he finished by reaching out his arms in a gesture of embrace...