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Sponsor of the floss, and inventor of the machines for processing it, is mild, spectacled Dr. Boris Berkman, onetime director of the Pasteur Institute in Moscow, for 20 years a surgeon on the staff of Chicago's Grant Hospital. He discovered one value of milkweed during a study of soil erosion. Its root system allows it to thrive on soil that is worthless for other use, and it binds the soil instead of breaking it. One million pounds of the floss could be collected from wild growth on marginal land in Emmet County, Mich, alone...
Died. Emma Goldman, 70, famed anarchist; after long illness; in Toronto. Deported from the U. S. to Russia in 1919 with her lover and fellow radical, Alexander Berkman, she soon quit Russia, roamed the world, married a Welsh coal miner, briefly revisited...
...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...