Word: anarchists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Isaac Deforest ("Ike") White, 78, long the late New York World's star crime reporter; in Syracuse, N.Y. He tracked down wife-killers, trapped oyster pirates, outwitted Yucatan slavers. From the remains of an unknown "anarchist" who bombed himself and Financier Russell Sage's office to pieces, White chose a button (detectives chose a head), identified the bomber as a Boston broker...
Culbertson is no newcomer to startling ideas. In his youth he was an anarchist and a stalwart member of the I.W.W. During the 1930's, Culbertson collaborated with his wife to produce the system of contract bridge which bears his name, thereby providing entertainment for habitues of everything from the prep-school butt-room to the Walla-Walla chapter of the D.A.R...
Silone's World of God will impartially repel Leftists, Centrists and Rightists. Its chief representative in this book, Pietro Spina, is no party man. He is a kind of religious anarchist. He thinks too well of the poor as they are, and too ill of the rest of the world, to be much interested in reducing poverty. He is Novelist Silone's embodiment of the best that a man of heart and mind can be in this century...
...soon made contact with the antifascist underground. It consists, he reports, of two main groups-the Matteotti group and the Communist-Anarchist group. "The Matteotti is in fact a people's front, for it embraces political persuasions ranging from Social Democrats on the left over to and including the aristocracy on the right. . . . It is no longer a movement for any set of principles as much as against the regime. . . . By the time I arrived in Italy, its membership of three hundred thousand reached into Fascist circles, into the Questura, and especially into the student body of Italy...
Three Murders. The murder of Alexander is only the first sinister chord struck in this intensely symphonic book. First of Author West's youthful memories was the assassination of the Empress Elizabeth by the anarchist Luccheni in 1898. "He was an Italian born in Paris of parents forced to emigrate by their poverty and trodden down into an alien criminal class: that is to say, he belonged to an urban population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth...