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...Berger, a florid, bustling, 67-year-old native of Austria-Hungary, used to teach school and dream Utopias in Milwaukee. Writing for newspapers led him into politics. He went as a delegate to the People's Party convention at St. Louis in 1896 and there began an agitation for the recognition of Eugene Victor Debs, then a labor organizer whom Mr. Berger had introduced to Marxism and whom Mr. Berger was to continue introducing for 30 years. When the Socialist National Committee was formed in 1898, Mr. Berger was of course on it. But not until 1910 did he attain...
...Rockaways, where Charles A. Levine had been a popular figure long before the emergence of Hero Levine, the demonstration was more florid. Shiny motor cars, opulent furs, proud gesticulations, eager recognition surrounded every step of the native's return. Smiles and congratulations flowed freely everywhere, together with a babble of question about Hero Levine's business plans. His plans are, he said in his unbothered way, to fly from Europe to the U. S. some day and to promote aviation as best Charles A. Levine can. " I'm going to leave the talking to others," he said...
...Brom-field?Stokes ($2.50). This book were better left unpublished. Coming on the heels of three splendid predecessors, the last of which (Early Autumn, 1926) won a Pulitzer Prize and brought the author back from his European haunts in a triumph of press-agentry, it is a sorry letdown. Florid, artificial, repetitious, it is incredibly dull and sloppy work to come from an author of Mr. Bromfield's well-earned reputation...
Primo de Rivera, bullnecked, florid, paunchy, inflexible, replied by sending a circular note of reprimand to Opposition news paper editors: "The Government shall defend its firm and irrevocable resolve, already taken, and it shall not permit any opposition designed to distract, alienate or misinform public opinion, which in the majority has accepted this solution as the best offered in the exercise of the dictatorship under the Government's exclusive responsibility to country and King...
...country popular by taking to the local customs and drinking beer with the natives: "TIME seems a little misinformed. Dr. Koester has been here since Latvia was acknowledged as such by the Germans-not three months ago as TIME has it. It is true he is a florid beerbibber and goes in for 'Beer Abends' sing-songs -'very-very' parties lasting well into the day after, but these are entirely international and he has had them all the time, so that is nothing new. He is a cheery bird but as a minister representing a Great...