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3 Leon Bass (born Leon Maimed) (1881-1956): Russian American radical who met EG about 1906 and maintained a friendship with her until her death.
4 EG had met anarchist Ben Capes and his wife, Ida, while lecturing in St. Louis. Capes remained a lifelong friend (see LML, 1970, 464-65).
5 Severance, ... Anthony, Julia Howe: Caroline M. Severance (1820-1914), American suffragist; Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), pioneer women’s rights advocate and suffragist; Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), American writer and reformer.
CHAPTER XLIV
1 Hearst’s Examiner: Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) assumed control of the San Francisco Examiner in 1887. His editorship advocated sensational journalistic practices.
2 Mooney... Weinberg: Of these local radicals charged with complicity in the crime, Thomas J. Mooney, leader of the left wing of the California Federation of Labor, and Warren Billings were convicted and would serve 23 years (1916-39) in California prisons, in spite of evidence that testimony against them was perjured.
3 Among others, EG enjoyed the company in Provincetown of Stella’s actor husband, Teddy Ballantine, the playwright Susan Glaspell, the journalist John Reed (see note LII, 10), and his lover Louise Rryant.
4 Frank P. Walsh (1864-1939): distinguished lawyer who represented radical defendants like Thomas J. Mooney.
5 Frank B. Sanborn (1831-1917): His biography of American essayist, transcendentalist, and reformer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was published in 1890.
6 Woodrow Wilson campaign: Nominated for the presidency in 1912, Woodrow Wilson advocated neutrality for America in World War I until 1917, when he asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany.
CHAPTER XLV
1 Alexandra Kollontay (1873-1952): Russian revolutionary, labor organizer, and Soviet diplomat.
2 Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein) (1879-1940): Russian Jewish revolutionary who joined the Bolshevik revolution as an eloquent agitator for the social democrats. He was the first commissar of foreign affairs for the Soviet government under Lenin. Expelled by Stalin in 1926, he was assassinated by Stalin’s agents in Mexico.
3 The New Freedom: economic reform program named in Woodrow Wilson’s 1912 presidential campaign speeches. It was enacted in a series of congressional acts in 1914.
4 Die Wacht am Rhein: “The Watch on the Rhine.”
5 get Sasha to the hall on his crutches: Berkman had sustained torn ligaments to his foot after a fall (see LML, 1970, 599).
6 Margaret Anderson: editor of the literary journal The Little Review, which EG had admired as “alive to new art forms.” EG respected Margaret Anderson’s freeing herself from “family bondage and bourgeois tradition” to form a new household with another woman (see LML, 1970, 530).
7 A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: Partly autobiographical, James Joyce’s Portrait, published in 1916, describes a sensitive youth, harried by religious and sexual guilt.
8 Jesus, Socrates, ... Phillipses: In addition to those martyred for their beliefs (Jesus, Socrates, Galileo, and G. Bruno), Goldman cites revolutionary architects of American freedoms (Jefferson and Patrick Henry), abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, insurrectionist John Brown, and civil disobedient Henry David Thoreau.
CHAPTER XLVI
1 in Jefferson City: EG was incarcerated at the Missouri State Prison in Jefferson City, there being no federal prison for women in the United States at that time (see LML, 1970, 625).
2 Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941): U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1916-1939.
3 what the Germans had done to the Belgians: In August 1914 the German army invaded Belgium, terrorizing the population, looting and burning towns. “Easter uprising”: On Easter Monday in 1916 about 1,250 Irish rebels attempted to capture the most prominent buildings in Dublin to challenge British rule.
4 EG identified the “Swede” as a friend named “Carl,” a “staunch and dependable comrade” who helped