Word: berkman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband. Guests flocked to her salon, enmeshed her in their tangled affairs. Sculptor Jo Davidson brought Journalist Hutchins Hapgood, who brought Lincoln Steffens, who brought some young college graduates: John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson. They were followed by Emma Goldman, "Big Bill" Haywood, Alexander Berkman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Max Eastman, Frances Perkins, Margaret Sanger, Mary Heaton Vorse, many others. The impressionable hostess, vibrating to labor leaders, radical journalists, jailbirds, futurist artists and philosophical anarchists as sensitively as she had responded to Florentine decadents, soon found her new companions too headstrong for her. She sponsored a modern...
...varied since only by shortening of the crucial time. "Where did the New Deal come from?" Mrs. Davie has asked. Her answer: "In 1932 Stuart Chase, a Socialist, said to be a former associate of the Alexander Berkman Red radicals, published a book entitled A New Deal...
Died. Alexander Berkman, 65, celebrated oldtime anarchist; by his own hand (revolver); in Nice, France...
Five of the men are from Cambridge, and their grants are made under the Daniel A. Buckley foundation established in 1907 for graduates of the Cambridge public schools. They are James I. Berkman 1G., a student in Biology; Anthony J, DeVito 3G., in romance languages; Peter A. Pertzon 3G., in comparative literature; Walter W. Dwyer '36; and Manes Specter...
...Gertrude Berkman is the Mayos' sister. Her family includes two doctor sons, two doctor sons-in-law, of whom Dr. Edward Starr Judd was the A.M.A.'s 1931 president...