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He immediately asked for my email address and said he would invite my wife Debs and I to enjoy all the pleasures that city could and would provide.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, began his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026
Well, nobody’s laughing now, after the actual mayor-elect began his speech by quoting Eugene V. Debs, the legendary Socialist Party hero who ran for president five times, getting nearly a million votes in 1912.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
Mr. Pärt turned 90 years old on Sept. 11, and Carnegie Hall is marking the occasion with a significant honor, appointing him this season’s Debs Composer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
To workers, Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers came increasingly to seem like saviors, Chicago’s merchant princes like devils.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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