7/8” button with its backpaper from obscure company, reads “Bella V. Dodd/Educator/10th A.D./A New Deal.” Mrs. Dodd was a lawyer who taught political science at Manhattan’s Hunter College in the 1930s. She was also a member of the Communist Party of America and in 1938 she was the American Labor Party candidate for N.Y. State Assembly from the Manhattan district which included Greenwich Village. She was also a founder of the left-wing New York Teachers’ Union. By the early 1950s, she changed her philosophy and explained in her 1954 book School Of Darkness that the Communist Party’s structure “Was In Reality A Device To Control The ‘Common Man’.” Button is rare and essentially Mint. The only example we’ve seen.