Russia’s Trotsky Split Debate Rages Over Eastman Book
The column critiques Max Eastman’s Attic volume Since Lenin Diet and its portrayal of the 1920s Soviet power struggle. It argues Trotzky’s defenders, notably Trotsky himself, refute Eastman’s depiction of the triumvirate Zinoviev, Stalin, and Kamenev, and warn that Eastman’s narrative serves counter revolutionary aims.
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Max Marstman
Lenin
Henry Alshere
Eastman
New York Herald
Fastman
Deer of Stockton
Trotzky
Isaac Trotsky
Trotky
Fo Lowere
Ins
Russia
Zinoviev
Mamenev
Stalin
Bucharin
Communist Party
F Eastman
Red Army
Tro‘zky
Central Committee
Birthday of Song Writer Celebrated in Los Angeles
Last week in Los Angeles a 64th birth day celebration honored Carrie Jaco fond a noted composer of songs. Friends sent telegrams of felicitation from Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks Charlie Chaplin Gertrud Ross and many others. The event featured a reception and musical program with Mrs Bond’s home decorated with flowers. Meanwhile critics discussed Trotzky Eastman and Soviet Russia, noting Eastman’s expulsion from the Workers' Party and contrasting views across international groups.
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Los Angeles
Carrie Jaco Fond
Harper's Magazine Seventy Fifth Anniversary Issue
The September number marks Harper's sixty fifth anniversary with a new policy promising broader fiction and essay diversity. W A Dwiggins of Boston designed the cover to harmonize the magazine with modern typographic excellence. The issue features a Religion and Life department by Dr Warry Emerson Fosdick and Christopher Morley's Thunder on the Left. It traces Harper's evolution with American literature from 1850 and notes the shift from essayists to short story writers, highlighting figures like Hawthorne, Thoreau, Twain, Crane, and Jewett, alongside contemporary names.
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Harper's
W. A. Dwigging
Boston
Warry Emerson Fosdick
Religion and Life
Christopher Morley
Harner
Great Britain
France
United States
Lamartine
Dickens
Alison
Blewood
Lever
Dublin University
Bulwer and
Croly
England
Scotland
Macaulay
Edinburg Review
Fletcher Harper
Literat! of
New England
Henry Seidel Canby
Saturday Review of Literature
Hawthorne
Emerson and
Thoreau
New York
America
Mr. Harper
Dr. Canby
Young
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Harriet P. Spofford
Frank Stockton
South
Appalachians
Rockies
Mark Twain
Bret Harte
Edward Everett Hale
Charles Egbert Craddock
Sarah Orne Jewett
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Richard Harding Davis
H. C. Bunner
Stephen Crane
James Lane
Explorer Finds Art Treasures in Desert Excavation
Moscow reports Roy Chapin Andrews, rival in antiquities digging, filed first notes from the expedition near an area once linked to the Andrews team of the American Museum of Natural History. Russian explorer Kozt uncovered a hill with a hoard of 500 ancient objects, likely 2,000 years old, in the buried city of Harakhuoto.
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Moscow
Roy Chap
Andrews
P ‘Loff
Tion
American Museum of Natural History
Koz*t
Hara-Khoto
Reeve Sells Rights and Extends Craig Kennedy Tale
Arthur B. Reeve creator of Craig Kennedy confirms he has produced a five part cycle on The Radio Detective. He first sold it to Poy’s Life, sold motion picture rights to Universal Pictures, wrote the continuity, novelized the screen version, and the story will appear in his new juvenile Craig Kennedy book The Boy Scout's Craig Kennedy scheduled for Harpers in September.
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Arthur B. Reeve
Craig Kennedy
Poy
Universal Pictures Corporation
Ndt
Mr. Reeve
Harpera
Realism in Hemon tales Mirrored in Blind Man and Maria Chapdelaine
The critique notes Louis Hemon works My Fair Lady and Maria Chapdelaine share stark realism and themes of heredity and environment. It contrasts Maria Chapdelaine's suffering with Mike O Brady and Winnie in a blood stained barroom, highlighting unfulfilled promises and inevitable fate.
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Louis Hemon
Lonon
Maria Chapdelaine
Mike O'Brady
Docker
Madame Chapdelaine
Maria
Winnie
New Relations Between Ownership and Management
The text notes most stock owners no longer run companies as ownership and control are separated. Brookings argues capital gets similar pay to banking, transforms the classic labor question into labor and the public, and supports worker representation in management to boost per capita production and living conditions.
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Macmillan
Robert
Brookings
Shaw Play Ban Lifted After Public Run in England
Canton Daily News reports that Bernard Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession was publicly performed for the first time in England at the Prince of Wales theater Birmingham with Shaw attending. The play had long been banned as indecent, provoking British playgoers to decry censorial vagaries while noting recent American bans on The Harem and Ladies of the Evening.
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London
Bernard Shaw
Istance
Emerson and Whitman Shape A Kansas City Insurance Man
Marty J. Roach, a life insurance agent, champions Emerson Whitman and the Bible as life’s guiding books. He praises growth through knowledge, art, and music, recalling a New Year’s Eve midnight singing, and frames life insurance as a great global institution. He favors Malloch and Guest in poetry and Read in fiction, while noting his critical reading of Current Opinion and shunning the Saturday Evening Post.
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Samuel Hopkins Adams
George Borrow
Emerson
Roach Isserts
Walt Whitman
Roach
Mr. Roach
Douglas Malloch
Edgar Guest
Opie Read
David Greyson
American
Literary Digest
Current Opinion
Saturday Evening Post
Reach
Episcopal Church In
Alliance
Nietzsche’s Return Sparks Debate Over War’s End
A New York publisher announces a twenty volume Nietzsche edition in England, signaling a revival of the thinker in libraries across big cities while rural areas cling to old censors. The article argues Nietzsche challenged Christian humility and celebrated intellectual and moral superiority, predicting upheaval before the new edition settles in.
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New York
Nietzsche
England
Department of Justice
Nitsky
Henry
Frank Crane
Sticks
W. J. Bryan
Dayton
Bryan
Leopold
Loeb
Darrow Pooh
Babylons
Ninevehs
Making of the author illustr of Joseph Pennell book
The forthcoming Adventures of an Illustrator by Joseph Pennell will be a deluxe quarto edition printed from original type with autographs. William Edwin Rudge of Milton, N Y, oversees the production as Pennell provides end papers, numerous drawings, and color illustrations including portraits of famed authors. The book aims for careful craftsmanship and modern fine printing standards.
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Eicher
Joseph Pennell
America
William Edwin Rudge
Minon
N. Y
Nakes
Pennell
Erto
Vance
Floral Wreaths Debated Under Copyright Rules
London dispatch reports a debate on whether floral wreaths fall under copyright and public display rules. The piece notes mixed reactions and protests sparked by wreaths left at Burns' memorials, with emphasis on decorum and public interest in preserving poetical tributes. The fragment hints at legal terminology and civic sentiment shaping memorial practices.
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Cant
London
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