Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the day's pleasures none brought the Vagabond more satisfaction than the lecture he attended at 4 this afternoon in Emerson. Mr. Conrad Aiken, poet, critic and novelist, one of the premier stylistic geniuses of our day, spoke under the auspices of the Morris Gray Fund...
...Conrad Aiken has experimented with more than one style and more than one attitude toward life. He has at last proclaimed his credo one of complete detachment from contemporary problems and turns his back on the petty squabbles and differences occasioned by such human institutions as, say, a presidential election. One of the most beautiful and searching of Mr. Aiken's poems is that beginning...
...shoemaker, John Aiken left school at 14 to enter a furniture factory. Today, at 40, he is an expert polisher of hardwood furniture. Meanwhile, he has served as top sergeant in the Motor Transport Corps during the War, has married, has fathered five children. At night he has studied anthropology, sociology, history, economics, law. For 24 years he has been reading Karl Marx...
Last May Socialist Laborite Nominee Aiken went to Manhattan, bought a second-hand 1934 Chevrolet and, accompanied by Herman Simon, a San Jose, Calif, school teacher, set out to stump...
from coast to coast. Emil F. Teichert, Vice-Presidential nominee on the Socialist Labor ticket, undertook a similar tour, had an automobile accident after four speeches, was laid up until last week. Nominee Aiken, however, is still touring, has visited over 100 cities. Last week he was in Altoona, Washington, Baltimore, Reading and Philadelphia. This week he speaks in Newark, Paterson, Jersey City and winds up where he began, in Manhattan, for as he solemnly says : "If our message is un heeded and the Reaction is victorious, never can it be said of the Socialist Labor Party that it ... failed...