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...next era in his life was spent as an exiled revolutionary. In 1908 he had met Trotsky in Vienna and together they founded the Pravda, now flourishing in Moscow under the editorship of Nikolai Bukharin. On one of his many trips to Russia under a pseudonym he was taken prisoner and exiled for life to Siberia. The 1917 revolution freed him. Returning to Petrograd, he became a member of the municipal council under the Kerensky regime, and a few months later became one of the leading Bolshevist victors...
...Reedy's Mirror, refused several of his contributions, but accepted from one "Lester Ford" some subjective epitaphs on imaginary dwellers in an imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer Chubb," and contributed to Reedy's Mirror many fine-sounding sonnets chanting the praises of William Jennings Bryan, the Anti-Saloon League and Mary Garden. When critics took the Spoon River Anthology (1915) seriously, Poet Masters began to take himself so; to write with purpose about "the American small town...
...Comic. It is entirely fitting that a playwright dramatize himself occasionally, especially if he does so with a grin. Lajos Luria, author of The Comic, prefaced this work as follows: "Lajos Luria is the pseudonym of one of Europe's most successful present day dramatists, used by him only when writing comedies and plays of a much lighter vein than his more serious dramatic and poetic works...
...mighty industries; he resents the grip that they have on certain U. S. businesses. And so it was natural that one of the early functions of the Dearborn Independent was to annoy the Semitic. In 1924 and 1925, 20 articles written by Newspaperman Harry Dunn, under the pseudonym Robert Morgan, appeared on the subject: "Jewish Exploitation of Farmers' Organizations." The first article said flatly: "A band of Jew bankers, lawyers, advertising agencies, fruit packers, produce buyers, professional office managers and bookkeeping experts is on the back of the American farmer. . . . Born in the fertile fortune-seeking brain...
Each candidate will submit not less than eight and not more than twelve poems of moderate length. The manuscript should be signed with a pseudonym, and should be accompanied by an envelope with the pseudonym on the outside and the candidate's real name inside...