Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson
Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson , 1891-1936, American lawyer and politician, b. Minneapolis. In his early life he was an itinerant laborer and for a time belonged to the Industrial Workers of the World. He studied law at the Univ. of Minnesota and at the Northwestern College of Law in Minneapolis and in 1915 was admitted to the bar. As county attorney (1920-30) of Hennepin co., he brought about an investigation of graft in the Minneapolis city council. Elected governor of Minnesota three times (1930, 1932, and 1934) on the Farmer-Labor ticket, Olson won national attention in 1933 by threatening to declare martial law and confiscate private wealth unless the legislature enacted relief measures to deal with depression conditions. A strong supporter of the New Deal, he led in the repeal of the Minnesota newspaper "gag" laws, ordered a two-year moratorium on mortgage foreclosures of farms, secured relief for the unemployed, and openly sided with labor in a series of strikes that occurred after 1934.
Bibliography: See biography by G. H. Mayer (1951).
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/14/2000; 271 words
; Births: Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame), astrologer, 1503; Roger Eliot Fry, painter and critic, 1866; King George VI, 1895; Paul Eluard (Eugene Grindel), poet, 1895. Deaths: Thomas Tenison...
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ANNIVERSARIES
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/14/1995; 339 words
; ...Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame) astrologer and prophet, 1503; Henry IV of Navarre, King of France, 1553; Roger Eliot Fry, painter and critic, 1866; Paul Eluard (Eugene Grindal), poet, 1895. Deaths: George Washington, first US...
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Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers: The Hogarth Press, 1917-41. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 7/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...tyro Woolfs what varnish was to Roger Fry (a sticky area). So were word...Hogarth Press publications, Eliot's The Waste Land [September...publisher of W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Maxim Gorky, Robert Graves...
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Is there a critic in the house?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/25/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...modernist adventurers - Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, TS Eliot - demanded the birth of a "new criticism" to...wonderful, invigorating books and essays by Pound, Eliot, Ford, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, TE Hulme and many more - great writers who became...
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Virginia Woolf.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Book; 11/1/2000; ; 411 words
; ...orphaned Woolf did--within a circle of siblings and close friends that includes E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey and T.S. Eliot. Nicholson reserves sufficient space for detailed descriptions of Woolf's books, cushioning each...
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Remembering Eliot's Criterion.(Reconsiderations)(T.S Eliot's periodical, The Criterion)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...exclusion of all else. As Eliot explained: But I have...today. In this regard, Eliot's standard was so high...carried The Waste Land, Roger Fry's translation of Mallarme...until the third issue. Eliot's first editorial commentary...
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Arts Etc: Blast! It's the real thing Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, TS Eliot - what a great art movement they made, says Tom Rosenthal. So why is Vorticism so neglected?
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 1/25/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...artistic, came from T S Eliot. Wyndham Lewis had a talent...quarrelled fiercely with Roger Fry, the chief exponent of...the writers, apart from Eliot and Pound, there was the...referred to Pound, Joyce, Eliot and himself as "the men...
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Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Woolf's works and those of her contemporaries, Olaf Stapledon, Vita Sackville-West, Roger Fry, Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, and T. S. Eliot, among them (p. 7). Demonstrating her own familiarity with both literary studies and...
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A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers.
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/19/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...been performed for T.S. Eliot, whose Egoist essays you...to terms with Joyce and Eliot and their epochal works...the shher incompetence of Roger Fry, Clive Bell and his...Vergil. On the subject of Eliot's poem as on much else...
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AN EXHAUSTIVE LOOK AT VIRGINIA WOOLF.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 7/6/1997; 700+ words
; ...Strachey, E.M. Forster, Roger Fry. They were concerned with...eventually with T.S. Eliot were important in her creative...new, experimental work - Eliot, Katherine Mansfield...were the first to publish Eliot's The Wasteland in book...
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Roger Eliot Fry
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Roger Eliot Fry 1866-1934, English art critic and painter. A champion of modern French schools of art, he introduced Cézanne and...
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Fry, Roger Eliot
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Fry, Roger Eliot (1866–1934), art critic and painter, educated at King's College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the...
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Virginia Stephen Woolf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...unknown writer; Poems by T. S. Eliot; and Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf...West, John Maynard Keynes, and Roger Fry. These artists, critics, and writers...became known as the Bloomsbury group. Roger Fry's theory of art may have influenced...
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Woolf, Virginia
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...unknown writer; Poems by T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965); and Kew...Keynes (1883 – 1943), and Roger Fry (1866 – 1934). These...became known as the Bloomsbury group. Roger Fry's theory of art may have influenced...
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Lewis, Wyndham
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...as Cubism. He worked for a short time at Roger Fry's Omega Workshops , but after quarrelling with Fry in 1913 he formed the Rebel Art Centre , from...of form; the rejection of that of T. S. Eliot (Durban Art Gallery) by the hanging committee...
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