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With such backing any conference could do much. Star Delegates who worked each other up to more and more spacious plans included Editor Samuel Margoshes of Manhattan's Yiddish newsorgan The Day and such eminent Jews escaped from the German Fatherland as Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Georg Bernhard. Sessions were mostly secret. Leaks grew more and more exciting. Finally correspondents flashed that a "Super-Government" of World Jewry was in course of formation...
Died. Chaim Nachman Bialik, 61, Hebrew poet, "Wordsworth of Hebrew literature." critic, journalist, Yiddish-Hebrew translator; of a heart attack following an operation; in Vienna. An English translation of his poems was published...
...Russian high command is determined to hold, colonize and develop it, possibly as a great metallurgical centre. Russia moved rapidly to survey the whole vast, 9,920,000-acre territory, forced the population up from 35,000 in 1928 to 50,000, founded two newspapers, one of them in Yiddish, made Yiddish the official language, organized collectives, state farms, village reading rooms and an agricultural college...
...plaza was a huge gilt Paul Manship statue of Prometheus poised in a swimming pose on a mound and encircled by a ring carved with zodiacal symbols. Last week Essayist Christopher Morley in the Saturday Review of Literature wrote of it thus: "I am appalled by the Yiddish Hurdler on the new terrace of Rockefeller City. Under those glorious perpendiculars . . . this gesticulating gigolo in gilt. Besides he is just as immoral as the banished Lenin for the only possible interpretation is that he is escaping from a wedding ring. . . . I ... roared with laughter...
...crib he wrote The Robber Barons on a fellowship made possible by money from the Guggenheim family-plutocrats not included in his book. He is rather deaf, has a sloping forehead, a shy Slavic face; his mustache and hair parted in the middle give him the look of a Yiddish Robert Louis Stevenson. Other books: Gallimathias (poems), Zola & His Time, Portrait of the Artist as American, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Robber Barons is the March choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...