Philip J. Jaffe papers, 1920-1980.

Bethune, Norman, 1890-1939

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Canadian physician, 1890-1939. From the description of Norman Bethune papers, 1970-1976, and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31382503 ...

Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

Gayn, Mark

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Mark Gayn was born Mark Julius Ginsbourg in 1909 at Barim on the Manchurian-Mongolian border. He moved frequently throughout his childhood. He moved to the U.S to study at Pomona College in California in 1929. Upon graduating, he went to Columbia University to study journalism. He graduated in 1934 and went to Shanghai to work as a special correspondent for the Washington Post. During the Second World War - also the period when he changed his name to Gayn - he worked for a variety of publication...

Ariyoshi, Koji, 1914-1976

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Jaffe, Philip J. (Philip Jacob), 1895-1980

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Philip J. Jaffe (1895-1980), magazine editor and businessman, of New York (N.Y.). From the description of Philip J. Jaffe papers, 1920-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122570754 Magazine editor and businessman, of New York (N.Y.). From the description of Papers, 1920-1980. (Emory University). WorldCat record id: 28408854 ...

Starobin, Joseph R. (Joseph Robert), 1913-1976

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Biography Joseph R. Starobin (1913-1976) and his son, Robert S. Starobin (1939-1971) each played significant roles in the radical movements of their times, the so-called Old Left and New Left. Joseph Starobin, born of a White Russian Jewish family in New York City, grew up among Socialists and became radicalized during the Great Depression. He was the foreign editor of the Daily Worker from 1945-1954, In 1951, on the Communist Par...

Fischer, Ruth, 1895-

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Fischer (1895-1961) (full name Elfriede Eisler Pleuchot) was a German politician, who by 1924 was in the top leadership of the Communist Party. Since 1919 she had been a member of the German Communist Party (KPD) but, together with Arkadi Maslow, was ousted from the leadership in 1925 and detained by Stalin until 1926. They went to Paris from 1933 to 1940, and fled after the German occupation to the U.S. From the guide to the Ruth Fischer papers, 1925-1961 (inclusive) 1940-1961 (bulk...

Chi, Chʻao-ting, 1903-

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Gomez, Manuel, -1989

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Deane, Hugh, active 1750

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Norman, E. Herbert, 1909-1957

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E. Herbert Norman was born in Japan to missionary parents. He was educated by his mother, and then attended the Canadian Academy at Kobe. Ill with tuberculosis in 1926, he returned to Canada where he finished his senior metriculum in Ontario in 1928. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1933, and then completed a second B.A. in classics in 1935, his M.A. at Harvard in 1937 and his Ph.D. in 1940. Norman joined the External Affairs department and was posted to Tokyo in 1940. He w...

Freeman, Joseph, 1897-1965

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American author; editor and correspondent, New Masses, 1926-1937; editor, Partisan Review, 1934-1936. From the description of Joseph Freeman papers, 1904-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871700 Poet, editor, and critic. Freeman graduated from Columbia University in 1919 with an A.B. He was an editor of "New Masses" from 1926 until 1937; an editor of "The Liberator" and of "Partisan Review;" a foreign correspondent for the "Chicago Tribune," th...

Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976

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Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989

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Orientalist, author, educator, and historian; died 1989. From the description of Owen Lattimore papers, 1907-1997 (bulk 1950-1989). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983405 Biographical Note 1900, July 29 Born, Washington, D.C. 1913 1914 Atten...

Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950

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American journalist. From the description of Agnes Smedley collection, 1911-1981 (bulk 1938-1948). (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 28979405 Agnes Smedley was born in Missouri in 1892 and lived in a number of western towns until she arrived at the Tempe Normal School in 1911. She attended the Normal School as a "Special Student" from 1911-1912, receiving special consideration for admission from president Arthur J. Matthews. ...

Varga, Eugen, 1879-1964

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Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976

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Strong, Anna Louise, 1885-1970

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Epithet: US author and socialist in Moscow British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x0003de Anna Louise Strong was born in Nebraska and educated at Oberlin and the University of Chicago. Later moving to Seattle, she was the editor of the Seattle Union Record. She travelled extensively to Russia and China, and she wrote accounts of those journeys. In 1921 she travelled to famine-struck areas in Russia as part of ...

Browder, Earl, 1891-1973

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Earl Russell Browder (1891-1973) was General Secretary of the Communist party of the United States during the height of its popularity, in the 1930s and 1940s and twice represented the Party as its candidate for President. Earl Browder was born on May 20, 1891, in Wichita, Kansas. He was the son of William Browder and Martha Jane Hankins Browder. His father was a teacher and farmer who was avidly Populist. Earl Browder had little formal education and went to work to help support the family. At t...

Kohlberg, Alfred, 1887-1960

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American businessman; national chairman, American Jewish League Against Communism; chairman, American China Policy Association; member of the board, Institute of Pacific Relations. From the description of Alfred Kohlberg papers, 1927-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122561238 Biographical Note 1887 Born, San Francisco, California ...

Snow, Edgar, 1905-1972

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American author. From the description of Autobiography excerpts, 1958-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367437397 ...

Roth, Andrew Samuel

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