Word: dos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belongs to a group of zealous metropolitan literati who organized themselves into the National Committee to Aid Striking Miners Fighting Starvation. Last autumn another group, the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, made a sortie into bloody Harlan County, adjacent to Bell, to "investigate conditions." Author John Dos Passes, chairman of the N. C. A. S. M. F. S., went along and so did Theodore Dreiser. In Pineville rural constables swore they caught Author Dreiser in some sexual mis- behavior and if he ever revisits the neighborhood it will be at the risk of reopening a statutory charge...
...they said, the toothpicks were still in place. Investigator Dreiser, 60, and his friend were indicted for adultery. Mr. Dreiser left Kentucky, protested his innocence, backed it with this public announcement: "I am completely and finally impotent." Last week he was also indicted in Kentucky, along with Author John Dos Passes, for criminal syndicalism because of his outspoken sympathy for the miners' cause...
...nearby village of Dos Hermanos (Two Brothers) rioters set fire to the telephone office, then attempted to burn the screaming, hysterical telephone girls alive by sniping at doors and windows. Perspiring Civil Guards dashed to the rescue. Seville's Governor Bastos forthwith dismissed the Mayor of Two Brothers as a pacifist...
...effect of the story is gigantically satiric. But Author Dos Passes has let his book speak for itself: it is not in the material but in his arrangement of it that the artist shows his hand. Author Dos Passes thinks of himself as an historian, tries to give an exact picture of an epoch...
...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...