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...Socialist Labor ticket, undertook a similar tour, had an automobile accident after four speeches, was laid up until last week. Nominee Aiken, however, is still touring, has visited over 100 cities. Last week he was in Altoona, Washington, Baltimore, Reading and Philadelphia. This week he speaks in Newark, Paterson, Jersey City and winds up where he began, in Manhattan, for as he solemnly says : "If our message is un heeded and the Reaction is victorious, never can it be said of the Socialist Labor Party that it ... failed at this historic hour to keep alive the revolutionary spirit." Next week...
Having inherited $35,000,000 from her second husband, Shipping Magnate Sir Robert Paterson Houston, Dame Fanny Lucy Houston can afford to indulge her girlish sense of fun, her matronly sense of Patriotism. In 1931 her sudden gift of $500,000 enabled Britain's aviators to enter and win-the final Schneider Trophy...
...cowardice or even restraint, for the play is not nearly so interested in ideas as in its people. Reddish remarks pass current, but they develop the characters, not the characters them. Bishop Holden, champion of the old order, although a little sententious, is not made to look ridiculous; Martin Paterson, champion of the new, is as non-chalant as that genial Communist, Earl Browder, and gladly abandons his lectures...
...Harvard class of 1910. The John Reed who wrote youthful poetry for the Harvard Monthly and the Advocate, who led the cheering in the Stadium, member of Hasty Pudding and Ibis of the Lampoon. The same John Reed wrote the words to the football song "Score," and created the Paterson strike pageant. The same Reed chummed with the romantic Villa in Mexico and, not much later, was under indictment in a half-score of sedition cases for defending the Russion Revolution in this country. He changed tremendously in the decade of upheaval from '10 to '12 but his change...
...paid hack. He was taken in by Mabel Dodge, whose Fifth Avenue salon was then running full blast. Her possessiveness eventually became a nuisance, but at her house Reed met the man who changed his life: William ("Big Bill") Haywood, famed I.W.W. leader. When Haywood told him about the Paterson silk-mill strike, Reed went to see it himself, got arrested, spent four days in jail. That was the beginning of his revolutionary education...