Word: cal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union Oil of Cal...
...Author. John (Roderigo) Dos Passos was born in Chicago (1896), has lived in Manhattan, Cambridge (Mass.). London, Brussels, Madrid, Paris. He graduated from Harvard cum laude in 1916. By conservatives considered a radi cal (all his writings have "social-revolutionary" leanings), he is looked at some what askance by orthodox Reds because his books are not primarily propaganda. Though many of his friends are Communists he is not a member of any party. Unlike such writers as Upton Sinclair, Dos Passos is more of an artist than an agitator. He was one of the artists, writers arrested in Boston...
...keynote of the Bureau's work was sounded in a statement made by Mr. Erskine at the time of its creation "Much of the failure of American cities to deal more effectively with street traffic may be attributed to a lack of techni. cal information. Traffic is an engineering problem. It can be controlled satisfactorily only through sound engineering methods...