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On this day, April 26, 1944, in Chicago, the US government took over retail giant Montgomery Ward.
Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted79 years ago today in Chicago: the US government took over retail giant Montgomery Ward & physically ejected the company's millionaire chairman, Sewell Avery, after he defied an order from the National War Labor Board to recognize his workers' democratically elected union.
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Sewell Avery was a prominent member/funder of right-wing, anti-New Deal business groups like the Liberty League & Crusaders, which were implicated in the failed 1933-34 coup plot against FDR, as alleged by Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler (& dramatized in the 2022 movie 'Amsterdam').
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