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Dilettanti Arise. After a year at the London School of Economics, social purpose was reborn in Field. Filled with his new learning, he created a furor by denouncing capitalism, the monopoly of wealth, the "narrow-mindedness of the wealthy students at Harvard." He formally joined Norman Thomas' Socialist Party and married sympathetic Elizabeth G. Brown of Duluth. They went off to study political movements in Communist Russia and the Far East...
After All, the Politicians. 1900 did not exaggerate the prospect of material progress ; its dream was to be multiplied many times over. But in a measure that would have appalled even the pessimists of 1900, old savageries were to be reborn, also multiplied. 1900 expected the next 50 years to belong to the businessman, or perhaps the scientist, or the educator. After them, the New York Times might be right: the world would belong to the poets "reciting their verses of a Summer evening" beside a Dewey arch...
...Harlem crap games. He was a partner in something called the Horowitz Novelty Co. which dealt in Kewpie dolls, razor blades and punchboards. It went bankrupt, left its creditors holding the sack, was reborn as the Dainties Products Co.-and boomed. He put his money into real estate, built apartments and five-story walkups in Upper Manhattan and The Bronx, and with his investments hit another jackpot...
Communist Boss Max Reimann shouted "No!" Nevertheless, Germany-Europe's greatest force for good or evil-had been reborn...
...professional Communist. After a stint on the prairies as a laborer, he showed up in Montreal as an organizer for the Young Communist League. Within two years he joined the Communist Party (outlawed by an Ontario court in 1931 and by the Dominion government in 1940, reborn in 1943 as the Labor Progressive Party...