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Writing Home from Around the World, 1926–1927
Writing Home from Around the World, 1926–1927 A keen and amused observer, Tom Johnson is an articulate and conscien- tious letter writer. The reader has the feeling he was writing for himself as much as his family as he makes sentences and paragraphs of his impressions of the world at the height of colonialism. By THOMAS H. JOHNSON Edited with an introduction by LAURA JOHNSON WATERMAN y father, Thomas H. Johnson, the writer of these letters, was born in 1902 on the Connecticut River Valley farm known as Stone Cliff, located one mile north of the vil- Mlage of Bradford. In 1926, upon his graduation from Williams College, Tom Johnson embarked on a world cruise that was to last the length of a school year—September to May. He had been invited to teach Eliza- bethan Drama and American Literature (subjects he soon found to be not particularly relevant) on the fi rst ever student travel experiment. This was launched on a large scale with over fi fty faculty and four hun- dred and fi fty students, one hundred and twenty of them women. A. J. McIntosh, president of the University Travel Association, saw this as an opportunity to combine formal education with travel, and orga- nized the adventure by reaching out to colleges across the country. The project became known as the Floating University and was considered . LAURA JOHNSON WATERMAN is the author of Losing the Garden (2005), a memoir of thirty years of homesteading in East Corinth, Vermont. She co-authored with her late husband, Guy Waterman, fi ve books on the history of climbing the moun- tains of the Northeast and related environmental issues, among them, Forest and Crag (1989), Backwoods Ethics (1993), and Wilderness Ethics (1993). -
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1891-1957, Record Group 85 New Orleans, Louisiana Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, LA, 1910-1945
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1891-1957, Record Group 85 New Orleans, Louisiana Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, LA, 1910-1945. T939. 311 rolls. (~A complete list of rolls has been added.) Roll Volumes Dates 1 1-3 January-June, 1910 2 4-5 July-October, 1910 3 6-7 November, 1910-February, 1911 4 8-9 March-June, 1911 5 10-11 July-October, 1911 6 12-13 November, 1911-February, 1912 7 14-15 March-June, 1912 8 16-17 July-October, 1912 9 18-19 November, 1912-February, 1913 10 20-21 March-June, 1913 11 22-23 July-October, 1913 12 24-25 November, 1913-February, 1914 13 26 March-April, 1914 14 27 May-June, 1914 15 28-29 July-October, 1914 16 30-31 November, 1914-February, 1915 17 32 March-April, 1915 18 33 May-June, 1915 19 34-35 July-October, 1915 20 36-37 November, 1915-February, 1916 21 38-39 March-June, 1916 22 40-41 July-October, 1916 23 42-43 November, 1916-February, 1917 24 44 March-April, 1917 25 45 May-June, 1917 26 46 July-August, 1917 27 47 September-October, 1917 28 48 November-December, 1917 29 49-50 Jan. 1-Mar. 15, 1918 30 51-53 Mar. 16-Apr. 30, 1918 31 56-59 June 1-Aug. 15, 1918 32 60-64 Aug. 16-0ct. 31, 1918 33 65-69 Nov. 1', 1918-Jan. 15, 1919 34 70-73 Jan. 16-Mar. 31, 1919 35 74-77 April-May, 1919 36 78-79 June-July, 1919 37 80-81 August-September, 1919 38 82-83 October-November, 1919 39 84-85 December, 1919-January, 1920 40 86-87 February-March, 1920 41 88-89 April-May, 1920 42 90 June, 1920 43 91 July, 1920 44 92 August, 1920 45 93 September, 1920 46 94 October, 1920 47 95-96 November, 1920 48 97-98 December, 1920 49 99-100 Jan. -
An Introduction to Jere Abbott's Russian Diary, 1927–1928*
An Introduction to Jere Abbott’s Russian Diary, 1927 –1928* LEAH DICKERMAN In 1978, in its seventh issue, October published the travel diaries written by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., who would go on to become the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, during his two-month sojourn in Russia in 1927–28. They were accompanied by a note from Barr’s wife, Margaret Scolari Barr, who had made the documents available, and an introduction written by Jere Abbott, an art historian and former director of the Smith College Museum of Art who had returned to his family’s textile business in Maine. Abbott and Barr had made the journey together, traveling from London in October 1927 to Holland and Germany (including a four-day visit to the Bauhaus) and then, on Christmas Day 1927, over the border into Soviet Russia. Abbott, as Margaret Barr had noted, kept his own journal on the trip. Abbott’s, if anything, was more detailed and expansive in documenting its author’s observations and perceptions of Soviet cultural life at this pivotal moment; and his perspective offers both a complement and counter - point to Barr’s. Russia after the revolution was largely uncharted territory for Anglophone cultural commentary: This, in combination with the two men’s deep interest in and knowledge of contemporary art, makes their journals rare docu - ments of the Soviet cultural terrain in the late 1920s. We present Abbott’s diaries here, thirty-five years after the publication of Barr’s, with thanks to the generous cooperation of the Smith College Museum of Art, where they are now held. -
Consumerism in the 1920S: Collected Commentary
BECOMING MODERN: AMERICA IN THE 1920S PRIMARY SOURCE COLLECTION ONTEMPORAR Y HE WENTIES IN OMMENTARY T T C * Leonard Dove, The New Yorker, October 26, 1929 — CONSUMERISM — Mass-produced consumer goods like automobiles and ready-to-wear clothes were not new to the 1920s, nor were advertising or mail- order catalogues. But something was new about Americans’ relationship with manufactured products, and it was accelerating faster than it could be defined. Not only did the latest goods become necessities, consumption itself became a necessity, it seemed to observers. Was that good for America? Yes, said some—people can live in unprecedented comfort and material security. Not so fast, said others—can we predict where consumerism is taking us before we’re inextricably there? Something new has come to confront American democracy. Samuel Strauss The Fathers of the Nation did not foresee it. History had opened “Things Are in the Saddle” to their foresight most of the obstacles which might be expected The Atlantic Monthly to get in the way of the Republic—political corruption, extreme November 1924 wealth, foreign domination, faction, class rule; . That which has stolen across the path of American democracy and is already altering Americanism was not in their calculations. History gave them no hint of it. What is happening today is without precedent, at least so far as historical research has discovered. No reformer, no utopian, no physiocrat, no poet, no writer of fantastic romances saw in his dreams the particular development which is with us here and now. This is our proudest boast: “The American citizen has more comforts and conveniences than kings had two hundred years ago.” It is a fact, and this fact is the outward evidence of the new force which has crossed the path of American democracy. -
December 1927) James Francis Cooke
Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 12-1-1927 Volume 45, Number 12 (December 1927) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 45, Number 12 (December 1927)." , (1927). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/46 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. r 7'he Journal of the iMusjcal Home Everywhere THE ETUDE <Music HhCasazine A CHRISTMAS EVE DILEMMA PRICE 25 CENTS December I92^ $2.oo A YEAR D Acquaintance with thex ComposenjmA^^--rZT —1---. asr-TSS-feiJs Z »*• s 126 S5S?-* o/l favorite American and European Composers. THE WORLD OF -MUSIC Interesting and Important Items Gleaned in a Constant Watch on Happenings and Activities Pertaining to Things Musical Everywhere THE ETUDE THE ETUDE DECEMBER 1927 Page SS3 Page 882 DECEMBER 1927 Professional WHAT TO DO FIRST AT Directory ■ Qan You THE PIANO THE ETUDE MUSIC MA®AZlNE Founded by Theodore Pres'er’ „ --- eastern 1. Why ir, the Dominant Chord so called? By Helen L. Cramm “Music for 2. -
THE AVAILABLE MAN the Savage, Turbulent Struggle for the 1924 Democratic Presidential Nomination Firmly Established Al Smith As
THE AVAILABLE MAN The savage, turbulent struggle for the 1924 Democratic presidential nomination firmly established Al Smith as one of the handful of American political figures who commanded immediate and serious nationwide attention. In the succeeding four years, his political successes and forceful administration as governor of New York kept him in the public eye and earned him widespread respect, while speculation about the 1928 presidential nomination shadowed nearly every action that he took. 1 Although Smith’s record as governor was his most impressive credential as a presidential contender, this was not all that people perceived when they thought about him and his possible candidacy. Since Smith combined in his person certain qualities and forces that had never before found a major representative in presidential politics and that roused explosive extremes of hostility and devotion, his potential candidacy put the Democratic Party in an agonizing dilemma. How Smith was able to capture the 1928 Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot, despite the misgivings of some Democrats and the conviction of others that he was an unsuitable choice, is a singular study in political availability. In retrospect, Smith’s many strengths and the political bankruptcy of the Democratic Party of the 1920s make his victory, which he and his friends actually did little to achieve, seem as logical as anything can be in American politics, perhaps even inevitable. 2 Smith demonstrated his political strength by winning re-election in 1924 and 1926. His renomination in 1924 remained in doubt until almost the eve of the state convention in late September. -
Strafford, Missouri Bank Books (C0056A)
Strafford, Missouri Bank Books (C0056A) Collection Number: C0056A Collection Title: Strafford, Missouri Bank Books Dates: 1910-1938 Creator: Strafford, Missouri Bank Abstract: Records of the bank include balance books, collection register, daily statement registers, day books, deposit certificate register, discount registers, distribution of expense accounts register, draft registers, inventory book, ledgers, notes due books, record book containing minutes of the stockholders meetings, statement books, and stock certificate register. Collection Size: 26 rolls of microfilm (114 volumes only on microfilm) Language: Collection materials are in English. Repository: The State Historical Society of Missouri Restrictions on Access: Collection is open for research. This collection is available at The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Columbia. you would like more information, please contact us at [email protected]. Collections may be viewed at any research center. Restrictions on Use: The donor has given and assigned to the University all rights of copyright, which the donor has in the Materials and in such of the Donor’s works as may be found among any collections of Materials received by the University from others. Preferred Citation: [Specific item; box number; folder number] Strafford, Missouri Bank Books (C0056A); The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Columbia [after first mention may be abbreviated to SHSMO-Columbia]. Donor Information: The records were donated to the University of Missouri by Charles E. Ginn in May 1944 (Accession No. CA0129). Processed by: Processed by The State Historical Society of Missouri-Columbia staff, date unknown. Finding aid revised by John C. Konzal, April 22, 2020. (C0056A) Strafford, Missouri Bank Books Page 2 Historical Note: The southern Missouri bank was established in 1910 and closed in 1938. -
1926-1928 Index to Parliamentary Debates
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Twenty-fourth Parliament 27 July 1926 – 25 October 1928 Queensland Parliamentary Debates INDEX Contents of this document * 24th Parliament, 1st Session 27 July 1926 – 19 November 1926 Index from Hansard, V.147-148, 1926 24th Parliament, 2nd Session 24 August 1927 – 15 December 1927 Index from Hansard, V.149-150, 1927 24th Parliament, 3rd Session 25 July 1928 – 25 October 1928 Index from Hansard, V.151-152, 1928 *The Index from each volume of Hansard corresponds with a Parliamentary Session. This document contains a list of page numbers of the daily proceedings for the Legislative Assembly as printed in the corresponding Hansard volume. A list of page numbers at the start of each printed index is provided to allow the reader to find the electronic copy in the online calendar by clicking on the date of the proceedings and then to a link to the pdf. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Twenty-fourth Parliament – First Session Queensland Parliamentary Debates, V.147-148, 1926 27 July 1926 – 19 November 1926 (McCormack Government) INDEX PAGE NOS DATE PAGE NOS DATE 1-3 27 July 1926 634-667 15 September 1926 3-14 28 July 1926 668-703 16 September 1926 14-30 29 July 1926 704-735 21 September 1926 31-71 3 August 1926 735-750 22 September 1926 71-108 4 August 1926 751-787 23 September 1926 108-143 5 August 1926 787-819 28 September 1926 144-183 17 August 1926 819-847 29 September 1926 183-222 18 August 1926 847-881 30 September 1926 223-260 19 August 1926 882-911 5 October 1926 260-299 24 August 1926 911-945 6 October 1926 299-328 25 August -
University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections
University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections Arthur H. Geissler Collection Geissler, Arthur H. (1877–1945) Scrapbooks, 1895–1928. 1.50 feet. Diplomat. Scrapbooks containing news clippings, magazine articles, government documents, pamphlets, photographs, handbills, and memorabilia accumulated by Geissler while serving as U.S. ambassador to Guatemala and reflecting events throughout Central America for the period 1922– 1928. _____________ Volume 1 This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, magazine articles, pamphlets and handbills collected by Geissler, 1895 - 1922. This period covers Geissler’s early political career in the Republican Party in Oklahoma. Newspaper articles are from the Wichita Herald, The Oklahoma News, The Tulsa Daily, The Cleo Chieftain, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Herald, Guthrie Leader, Daily Ardmoreite, The Houston Tribune, Oklahoma City Times, Daily Oklahoma and others. Other items and subjects covered in Volume I are as follows: • Three handbills announcing speeches to be given by Geissler for the Republican Party, 1895-1898. • Articles concerning campaigning in 1896 to get support of the “German element” of the Republican Party. • Republican Convention of Woods County to elect delegates to the Enid Convention. • May 8, 1900 - Geissler chosen as a delegate to Enid. • Wedding announcement - Arthur Geissler to Julia Henderson Adams on May 3, 1905. • Daughters of the Republic of Texas 1902-1915, of which Mrs. Geissler was president. The Pinckey Henderson Chapter. • Statehood convention 1905 - election of delegates. • Articles (1912-1918) regarding Geissler's terms as Chairman of the Republican Party in Oklahoma; 1914 - State Republican Convention, the Harris-Geissler faction; Geissler as a delegate to the Republican National Convention, Chicago, June 7, 1916. -
November 1926
USSIA ROMANCE OF NEW III/ Xc RUSSIA Magdeleine Marx RUSSIA TURNS EAST The impressions made by MOHIUIY Soviet Russia on this famous By Scott Nearing French novelist will make interesting reading for any A brief account of what worker. A beautiful book. Russia is doing in Asia. $ .10 Cloth bound—$2.00 BROKEN EARTH —THE GLIMPSES OF RUSSIAN VILLAGE THE SOVIET REPUBILC TODAY By Scott Nearing By Maurice Hindus A bird's-e.ve view of Rus- A well-known American sia in impressions of the au- journalist and lecturer, re- thor on his recent visit. visits in this book the small Russian village of his birth. $ .10 His frank narrative reveals the Russian peasant as he is today, growing to new stat- EDUCATION IN ure and consciousness in a new society. SOVIET RUSSIA Cloth bound—$2.00 Scott Nearing A tinu-lmnd account o f A MOSCOW DIARY aims and methods of educa- By Anna Porter tion in the Soviet republics. A series of vivid new im- Cloth bound—$1.50 pression of life in the world's Paper-— .50 first workers' government. Cloth—$1.00 COMMERCIAL HAND- MARRIAGE LAWS OF BOOK OF THE U. S. S. R. SOVIET RUSSIA A new brief i-ompendiuni The Soviet marital code is of information on the So- an innovation in laws that is viet Union. Interesting and of great historic movement. .if value for all purposes. $ .10 $ .25 THE NEW THEATER AND CINEMA Or SOVIET This Book Stilt Remains the RUSSIA By Huntley Carter LENIN Most Complete Report on .Mr. Carter, the eminent author- ity, presents here a veritable ency- LENIN—The Great Strategist, clopedia of the Russian theater to- By A. -
Federal Reserve Bulletin October 1927
FEDERAL RESERVE BULLETIN OCTOBER, 1927 ISSUED BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD AT WASHINGTON Crop Moving and the Banking Situation Course of Commodity Prices Condition of All Banks in the United States UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICB WASHINGTON 1927 Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD Ex officio members: ROY A. YOUNG, Governor. EDMUND PLATT, Vice Governor. A. W. MELLON, Secretary of the Treasury^ Chairman, ADOLPH C. MILLER. CHARLES S. HAMLIN. J. W. MGINTOSHJ GEORGE R. JAMES. Comptroller of the Currency, EDWARD H. CUNNINGHAM. WALTER L. EDDY, Secretary. WALTER WYATT, General Counsel, J. C. NOELL, Assistant Secretary. E. A. GOLDENWEISERJ Director, Division of Research E. M. MCCLELLAND, Assistant Secretary. and Statistics,, W. M. IMLAY, Fiscal Agent. J. F. HERSON, CARL E. PARRY, Assistant Director, Division of Re~ Chief, Division of Examination, and Chief Federal search and Statistics, Reserve Examiner, E. L. SMEAD, Chief, Division of Bank Operations, FEDERAL ADVISORY COUNCIL District No. 1. (BOSTON)_-_-. -----.--.-. -.---...-. ARTHUR M. HEARD. District No. 2 (NEW YORK)=___.».»»»» --.---_---.. «,- JAMES S. ALEXANDER. District No. 3 (PHILADELPHIA)... „__„___._„_ L. L. RUE. District No. 4 (CLEVELAND).---..-_....-............._..... HARRIS CREECH. District No. 5 (RICHMOND) ..-.•_.-.............. >>»„„. JOHN FS BRUTON, Vice President District No. 6 (ATLANTA).. -..-._ -=. = >._„„_„„„„_„_„„«.__ P* D. HOUSTON. District No. 7'(CHICAGO)--------- „„„„_„_„„...._______ FRANK O. WETMORE, President, District No. 8 (ST. LOUIS)- -----_---------.-.---_--_-- BRECKINRIDGE JONES. District No. 9 (MINNEAPOLIS)___„__. ._-____-_---_-__-_--_ THEODORE WOLD. District No. 10 (KANSAS CITY)_---_.----- —-.- — — — --._- P. -
The Foreign Service Journal, December 1927
AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Photo jrom J. H. Bruins. THE RATHAUS TOWER, TALLINN, ESTHONIA Vol. IV DECEMBER, 1927 No. 12 The Car for Today—and Tomorrow Dodge Brothers Four supports the contention of lead¬ ing automotive engineers that the car of the future will be comparatively light and of medium wheelbase. For it will travel rough roads with greater comfort than other cars of its weight, and forge its way through traffic as no larger car can do with safety. Dodge Brothers motor has always been noted for economy of fuel and oil but in this new Four with the famous “124” motor, oil economy is made more cer¬ tain by an improved lubrication system and gasoline consumption is reduced one fifth. DODGE- BRDTHE-R5, INC. DETROIT, U. 5. A. DODGE- BROTHERS MOTOR CARS FOREIGN S JOURNAL PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION VOL. IV, No. 12 WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER, 1927 American Consulate General at Rio de Janeiro By CONSUL DIGBY A. WILLSON, Bristol From the Brasilian American AN AMERICAN consular office has been assistant formerly with the Consulate General established in Brazil for 118 years. This at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in his book entitled fact was ascertained by the writer from “The Diplomatic Relations of the United States an exhaustive search of the Embassy and Con¬ and Brazil,” the first diplomatic relations between sulate records. It reflects the democratic sym¬ the two coutries were not, as in the case of pathies and the Pan-American policy of the the other Latin American countries, with a revo¬ Jefferson administration.