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...books that brought him fame, from The Jungle (about the Chicago stockyards) to Boston (the Sacco-Vanzetti trial) and The Brass Check (the capitalist press), were really fictionalized expose journalism; they belong to social rather than literary history. It is not his fault that today he seems quaint and a bit comic, like Mrs. Amelia Bloomer. For better or for worse, the U.S. has taken a good deal of his advice. Strikers, for instance, whose cause Sinclair fought from Pasadena to Passaic, are no longer jailed out of hand by local police chiefs acting under the orders of the Chamber...
Landis. To many of the New Deal's enemies. Professor Frankfurter seemed downright sinister. His outspoken interventions on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti and other unpopular defendants in the 19205 had led Chief Justice William Howard Taft to remark that he "seems to be closely in touch with every Bolshevist, Communist movement in this country." As late as 1945, a Southern Congressman told the House that "practically every department is now infested with those who see eye to eye with Frankfurter-the Rasputin of this Administration." ∙ But fears that Frankfurter would be a flaming radical on the bench...
...party was successful when it could act with American writers on an issue like the Scottsboro case, or join intellectuals in picketing for Sacco and Vanzetti, but it displayed a great, lumbering ineptness whenever it interfered in strictly cultural and artistic matters. This ineptness that Aaron writes of, this inability to deal with American writers on American terms is something that the myths of both the Right and the Left have forgotten. Even someone as useful to the Party as Dreiser was continually embarrassing its leaders; he was, at heart, an individualist, and his allegiance was always conditional. Dreiser talked...
...hung in Washington's National Gallery of Art were a Turner, a Gainsborough and a Reynolds, left to the museum by a onetime Boston auto dealer who died in 1958: Alvan Tufts Fuller, better known as the Massachusetts governor who refused to stay the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. Also included in the Fuller estate: $80,646.94 in paychecks that he collected during his 13 years in public office and decided never to cash...
...name of freedom, polluting air they do not own." His proposal: set up several nonprofit organizations, staffed by experts in various fields who would select programs; the networks would simply function as agents selling air time, but would have no control over shows. Writer-Producer Robert Alan (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Aurthur, whose rhetoric was particularly eloquent when he was describing the "cold, slitted eyes of advertising men," revealed that low-flying, low-quality ABC, the network that had "made money without spending it," has recently been exporting consultants to help NBC do the same...