Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...descendant of Daniel Webster returned good for evil, last week, to famed Lev Davidovitch Trotsky. The descendant is Poet Max Eastman, 45, sometimes considered a dilettante radical, onetime editor of the brilliant but now defunct review, The Masses* and author of Since Lenin Died. Of this volume Comrade Trotsky wrote in his potent yesterdays: 'fallacious and mendacious . . . exploits single incidents of the [Communist] party discussion . . . perverts the meaning of facts." Since writing those lines Trotsky has been exiled to the remote vicinity of Chinese Turkestan because he dared to continue "party discussion" in a party which demands blind obedience...
Coincident with the reports of the success enjoyed by this enterprising faith, were reports of a book which has been written about its founder, Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy. The name of the book is Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy; its author was Adam H. Dickey, who during the closing years of Mrs. Eddy's life, had been her private secretary...
...author is a plump, merry woman with a daughter at Smith College, a son at Yale, a husband in the newspaper business. As Mrs. Nana Springer White, she lives comfortably at Hempstead, Long Island. As Miss Adele Garrison, she is an oracle on marital problems for hundreds of her readers. Her own life has taught her to use her typewriter to produce what U. S. women like. Born in Clinton Junction, Wis., she became school teacher in Milwaukee, assistant Sunday editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, feature writer and reporter for the Chicago Examiner and Chicago American...
Today's article, dealing with Charles Curtis of Kansas, was written by Charles Merz, author of "The Great American Bandwagon." It will be found on page three of this issue. The next article, on Alfred E. Smith of New York, will appear at an early date...
...this country. For "Faust". Robert Simon has prepared a skillfully adapted libretto, while for the other operas English versions have been carefully, through less originally, made. With each piece the singing players seek equally the dramatic values of text, action and song. Vladimir Rosing, as stage director, is the author of these courses. The conductor is Frank St. Leger, formerly of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and of Convent Garden, London. These two men have worked with the company since last summer and have themselves prepared the entire repertoire...