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Debs

American

[debz] / dɛbz /

noun

Eugene Victor, 1855–1926, U.S. labor leader: Socialist candidate for president 1900–20.

Debs British

/ dɛbz /

noun

Eugene Victor. 1855–1926, US labour leader; five times Socialist presidential candidate (1900–20)

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She organized dances at the club, making sure that the Junior Hostesses and Victory Debs were on hand to entertain visiting servicemen.

From Literature

Other strikes broke out around the country, and Debs began planning a nationwide general strike to begin in July.

From Literature

To workers, Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers came increasingly to seem like saviors, Chicago’s merchant princes like devils.

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Eugene Debs ran five times as the Socialist Party candidate for president and won nearly a million votes in 1920 when he was serving a prison term for sedition.

From Los Angeles Times

That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent.

From Seattle Times

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