Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american politician from new york city”. Today it says “legal counsel to the international ladies' garment workers' union during the 1910 new york cloakmakers strike”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
He was one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congress . London was the uncle of prominent civil liberties attorney and constitutional law professor Ephraim London , whose first position as a lawyer was working for his uncle and father at the family firm for $12 a week. Meyer London, for thirty years a leader of Socialist and labor forces in New York and Representative for the Twelfth District in three sessions of Congress, died at 10:05 o'clock, last night, at Bellevue Hospital, whither he had been removed early yesterday afternoon after being struck by an automobile at First Avenue and Eighteenth Street. ... : Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= ( help ) Fowler, Glenn.1
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Meyer London, 1919 Meyer London (1871—1926) was an American politician from New York City . He is best remembered as one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congress .
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He represented the Lower East Side of Manhattan and was one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congress .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
He represented the Lower East Side of Manhattan and was one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congress .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
He was legal counsel to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union during the 1910 New York Cloakmakers strike.He represented the Lower East Side of Manhattan for two nonconsecutive terms and was one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congress .His opposition to American entry into World War I and his refusal to introduce a congressional resolution supporting the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine created controversy that limited his political career.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american politician from new york city”. Today it says “legal counsel to the international ladies' garment workers' union during the 1910 new york cloakmakers strike”. Read the current article and compare.
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american politician from new york city
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legal counsel to the international ladies' garment workers' union during the 1910 new york cloakmakers strike
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