Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author of a Communist tract called The Coming Struggle for Power, baldish, fattish, 37-year-old British Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey says he is no Communist. Having barely escaped deportation proceedings during a U.S. lecture tour in 1935, young Mr. Strachey this year set out on another with the proofs of a new book, Hope in America, under his arm. Last week he sat cooling his heels, along with a Hungarian pianist and two Montenegrin stowaways, in the flag-draped detention room at Ellis Island...
...Author Sinclair had just launched EPIC* and Sheridan Downey-though he did not claim to be another Old Bob La Follette-had contracted a social itch, had to do something about Depression I. He and Upton Sinclair sat down, talked for seven days. No stenographer took down their scintillating exchanges, but Downey says now that he disagreed with Sinclair's absolute faith in production-for-use, clung then to the profit system, blamed excess savings† rather than excess profits for drying up the economic well. He says he just sympathized with Author Sinclair's objectives...
...Elliott of Los Angeles is a political hack, unillusioned, practical, alert. He managed Senator McAdoo's successful campaign in 1932. Perceiving how ebullient Sheridan Downey from northern California (Atherton, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto) had run ahead of Author Sinclair in the EPIC campaign, Jackson Elliott cocked an eye at him for 1938 because he knew where lay the biggest unstaked bloc of votes for that year-among EPIC and Townsend-conscious oldsters...
Today, 77-year-old, white-haired Paderewski lives quietly in a sprawling baroque villa at Merges, Switzerland. His careers as No. 1 Pianist and No. 1 Pole are both long past. This week, with the collaboration of Actress-Author Mary Lawton, he publishes a volume of memoirs* covering the first of these two careers (1860-1914), promises another volume at a later date...
Died. Karl Johann Kautsky, 84, famed Austrian Socialist, author (The Guilt of Wilhelm II, Bolshevism in Deadlock), friend & associate of Karl Marx; in Amsterdam...