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2 unusual facts about The New Masses


1935 Labor Day hurricane

Ernest Hemingway visited the veteran's camp by boat after weathering the hurricane at his home in Key West; he wrote about the devastation in a critical article titled Who Killed the Vet for The New Masses magazine.

Betty Millard

Published by International Publishers and appearing first in her own New Masses magazine, the work examined and explained the history of the women's movement in the United States, in the socialist movement, and in the USSR.



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Boardman Robinson

Some of his students include Bill Tytla, Edmund Duffy, Jacob Burck, Russel Wright, Gerhard Bakker, and Esther Shemitz (who soon after married Whittaker Chambers: both Burck and Shemitz contributed illustrations to The New Masses as their mentor did.)