Word: hapgood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life made such half-experiences impossible and drastic showdowns inevitable. Establishing a Manhattan salon at No. 23 Fifth Ave., she took the first decisive step of separating from her husband. Guests flocked to her salon, enmeshed her in their tangled affairs. Sculptor Jo Davidson brought Journalist Hutchins Hapgood, who brought Lincoln Steffens, who brought some young college graduates: John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson. They were followed by Emma Goldman, "Big Bill" Haywood, Alexander Berkman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Max Eastman, Frances Perkins, Margaret Sanger, Mary Heaton Vorse, many others. The impressionable hostess, vibrating to labor leaders, radical...
...unofficial alumni Tercentenary activity was the publication of a pamphlet called Walled in This Tomb. A 29-page indictment of the action of A. Lawrence Lowell's committee in upholding the conviction of Sacco & Vanzetti in 1927, the pamphlet was signed by such Harvard Reds as Powers Hapgood, Heywood Broun, John Dos Passes, Stuart Chase, who wanted to know "what happened to the mental processes of ... Alma Mater's President...
...chunky Bill Blizzard, a delegate from West Virginia who took part in the famed Mingo March of 1921 which brought out the U. S. Army and ended in a treason trial in the same Charles Town, W. Va. courthouse where John Brown was found guilty. There was Powers Hapgood from Illinois, nephew of oldtime liberal Editor Norman Hapgood. He had worked his way around the world in coal mines, had been fired on for distributing handbills in Pennsylvania. In a thoroughly rebellious spirit such delegates as these introduced hundreds of resolutions favoring President Lewis' stand for industrial unionism, voted...
President's Friend. For Collier's, where he succeeded Norman Hapgood as editor in 1912, Journalist Sullivan journeyed often to Washington, wrote a department called "Comment on Congress." For Teddy Roosevelt, of whom he became friend & adviser as well as worshiper, the young journalist hurled his pen into the Progressive fight. He crusaded for Pure Food and for Conservation. He lambasted "Standpattism" and "Cannonism." He fought for low tariffs and direct primaries. In those zestful days young Mark Sullivan was indeed, as old Mark Sullivan has described him in Our Times, "a fierce young eagle of the press...
...Powers Hapgood Advocates Reign...