Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most conspicuous is the handling of the history of the southern problem, which is handled not at all. Readers of "Izvestia" now stand convinced that America has been indicted of crimes it ignores with true capitalistic brutality and neglects to remedy in the manner of courtiers at old St. Petersburg. Logically, the Russians must conclude that the only salvation lies in overthrow al and the consignment of white southerners to American Siberias. It is not Mr. Ehrenburg's treatment of the Negro that is amiss, but his branding of the southerner, and thus, in the manner of a good dialectician...
...shop ("the restaurants of the country are my workshops"), sells it, mimeographs and distributes it to his newspaper clients. He goes where he pleases, mostly in his own car, writes whatever his common-denominator instinct directs about each day's wanderings. Last week he was hunting near St. Petersburg...
...column brings him another competence, Dadswell insists it will have to come from little papers. He has promised never to raise his rates ($10 monthly for papers under 10,000 circ.). In his growing string he is proudest of the Cambridge (Md.) Banner, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, presumably because he thinks they are proud of him. Says Dadswell: "If the President of the United States walked into their offices and told them they could not run my column, they would tell him to go to hell...
Professor Sorokin, who has written several books on Russia and has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Petersburg, was banished from that country in 1922 and condemned to death if he returned...
Prominent among pre-soviet Russian philosophers, N. O. Lossky, formerly a professor at the University of St. Petersburg, will talk to an open meeting of the Philosophical Club tonight at 8 o'clock in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House. His topic will be "Sanctions of Moral...