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Public sympathies shifted radically when Alexander Berkman, an anarchist and longtime consort of Emma Goldman, walked into Frick’s office on July 23, shot him twice in the neck, and then stabbed him three times. Amazingly, Frick wrestled Berkman to the ground and prevented his swallowing a lethal poison as he was being subdued by guards. Frick then
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the Marrow proved to be a litmus test—particularly
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Gore Associates,
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“Lefkowitz”?) Louis Goldstein declared his name “un-American, uneuphonius, and an economic handicap”—a petition that was rejected by the judge, whose name was also Louis Goldstein. (Those who beat the odds in an unfair system, of course, are the ones most invested in claiming the system is fair; if they didn’t need a workaround, there must not be a
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In this derelict place, Harris allowed his soul to unfold in a poignant ode to the universe.
Phil Rosen • Life Between Moments: New York Stories
