'''Alice Prentice Barrows''' was a secretary of Dr. [[William A. Wirt]], who headed the U.S. [[Department of Education|Office of Education]] in the early days of the [[New Deal]] of President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]. Barrows had been a member of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] since 1919, the same year she began working for the Office of Education. During [[World War II]] Barrows was the Executive Secretary of the the [[National Council of American-Soviet Friendship]]. | '''Alice Prentice Barrows''' was a secretary of Dr. [[William A. Wirt]], who headed the U.S. [[Department of Education|Office of Education]] in the early days of the [[New Deal]] of President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]. Barrows had been a member of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] since 1919, the same year she began working for the Office of Education. During [[World War II]] Barrows was the Executive Secretary of the the [[National Council of American-Soviet Friendship]]. |