Word: fischers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permission of Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc.; George F. Briegel, Inc.; Carl Fischer...
...years Louis Fischer was the journalistic delegate from New York's liberal Nation to the Russian revolution. When not in Moscow, Fischer dashed around Europe, interviewing political bigwigs. During the civil war, he was in & out of Spain. His two-volume The Soviets in World Affairs, still the standard work on the subject, made Fischer an authority on Russian foreign politics. It also brought him into close contact with Russian politicians. His dispatches were easy to read and suggested an unusual grasp of the forces that make history move. While other correspondents' dispatches were coldly objective or loaded...
...POLITICS-Louis Fischer-Duell, Sloan and Pearce...
This week Correspondent Fischer published Men and Politics, an autobiography. Its publishers claim that it is eight books in one: 1) the story of Germany; 2) the story of the Russian revolution from 1917 to 1941; 3) a political biography of Stalin; 4) a complete story of the Spanish civil war; 5) a survey of the events and policies that led to World War II; 6) a thorough study of the fall of France; 7) an outline of world diplomacy since World War I; 8) a guide to the ways & means by which statesmen make politics. The publishers overlook...
...Fischer did not speak much Russian when he went to Russia. But on the train he met Sidney Hillman. The future co-director of OPM (a native who speaks Russian) was in Russia reconditioning clothing factories, trying to teach the Bolsheviks how to run them...