Word: european
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Communism has never won political support in the U. S. as it has in some European countries (see page 15). Its ablest figure, the late Charles Emil Ruthenberg was a longshoreman's son who worked in factories and newspaper offices. The new leader William Zebulon Foster, 47, was a wandering slum boy of Taunton, Mass., who obtained a haphazard education in public libraries. First he was a Socialist, but in 1919 that party "expelled" him for his part in the I. W. W. steel strikes of that year. He was later convinced that the I. W. W. program...
...stock answer to criticisms of the American governmental system is that "it works." Inquiry is seldom carried to the point of how much better it might work if differently constructed, or how long it would continue to work if subjected to a strain such as European governments are frequently called upon to resist. In the June number of Harper's Harold T. Laski, English student of Political Science, both examines the practical workings of the American political mechanism and raises the question of its adaptability to the unprecedented strains which the future is liable to bring forth...
Metropolitan Operatic Males sailing from Manhattan for European vacations, last week, included: Antonio Scotti on the Majestic; Giovanni Martinelli aboard the Aquitania with Prompter Mario Marchesi; and, heading direct for Italy on the Conte Biancamano, Beniamino Gigli & Chorus Master Giulio Setti...
Mischa Elman, tycoon among violinists, landed from the Paris, last week, and flung to U. S. newshawks a tidbit: "The Philharmonic of New York, the Philadelphia Symphony and the Boston Symphony are far superior to any European symphonies except the Amsterdam Symphony, which is conducted by Herr Josef Mengelberg...
Wheat exports move chiefly from the Americas and Australia into Europe and the Balkans, although most European states grow a major portion of what they consume. France, for example, grows one-fourth as much wheat as the U. S., three times as much as Germany, twice as much as Rumania and slightly more than Italy...