Word: gustavus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ENDING OF HEREDITARY AMERICAN FORTUNES-Gustavus Myers - Messner...
...horse, Socialist-minded Chicago publisher printed a small edition of Gustavus Myers' History of the Great American Fortunes. Its author was a fact-worshipping reporter of Philadelphia and Manhattan who had spent eight years digging out his facts. No other publisher would touch it-they feared it was "of such a nature ... as to get us into a great deal of trouble." Declared a typical nose-holding review (New York Times): "It leaves such a bad taste in the mouth that readers may be cordially advised to read something else...
...slight, soft-voiced Gustavus Myers has written a sequel which leftists are not likely to crib. To declare that big U. S. fortunes are ending in the natural course of things is bad news for those who advocate ending them by "proletarian" revolution. Far less detailed than its predecessor, also far livelier, The Ending of Hereditary American Fortunes goes back a long way to explain its title. Key of Myers' argument is the U. S. tradition against special privileges that are due to accident of birth...
...Nordic States no man can foresee. But with their democratic friends embattled far down the North Sea, and their totalitarian neighbors creeping across and along the Baltic, tears and tennis, trees and testimonials may well be not enough to save them. Against one Adolf Hitler, perhaps not even a Gustavus Adolphus would suffice...
Married. Alfred Gustavus Baker Lewis, 42, wealthy, spasmodic Socialist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts; and Mrs. Eileen O'Connor Lane, 36, Socialist candidate for Massachusetts Secretary of State last year; both for the second time; in Boston, Mass...