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sky and other revolutionary leaders. In 1918 the President sent him to London as commissioner to Great Britain on the committee on pub- lie information. And in 1919 he was member of the Presidents indus trial commission.
 Barred By 2 Nations
 The British government by 1926 had found him objectionable. In that year he was forbidden to land at Plymouth unless he agreed not to go to Ireland; he chose to pass Eng land without landing. This was be- cause of his espousal of the cause of the Irish republic.
 Italy previously had denied him admittance on account of his attacks on Mussolini.
 Russell was born in Davenport Iowa, September 25, 1860, the son of Edward Russell, publisher of the Davenport Gazette. He was gradu- ated from the St. Johnsbury tVt.) Academy in 1881.
 He was married twice. His first wedding was in 1884 to Abby O Rust of St. Johnsbury. They had a son, John Russell, playwright, and short story writer of Santa Monica Calf. Mrs. Russell died in 1901, and in July 1909, he married Theresa Hirschl of Chicago.
 Started at Bottom |. In his boyhood Russell spent all his spare time in his fathers news paper office; learning to set type and do chores. He got into editorial work and in 1881 became telegraph edi- tor of the Gazette. In 1884 he be- came night editor of the Minneapolis Tribune and later managing editor of the Minneapolis Evening Journal
 After a brief period in 1886 as managing editor of the Detroit Trib- une, he joined the reportorial staff of the New York Commercial Ad- vertiser, next to the New York Times, World and Herald. He was city edi- tor of the World, 1894-97, and one of the managing editors of the New York American until 1900. When he left the newspaper field after his health broke in 1902, he was pub fisher of the two Hearst papers in Chicago, the America hand the Ex- aminer A year later he entered the magazine field
 Crusader in Wide Fields
 Besides his campaign against the corporations, his crusades stretched over the whole field covered by the other ''muckrakers' and then some. Among the subjects he dealt with were womens suffrage, Trinity Church's tenements, southern pris- on camps, prison conditions in the north, the strike in the Michigan copper regions and the old New York election laws.
 After trip around the world for Everybody'S Magazine, he wrote a famous series of articles on Sociolo- gical studies in various countries en- titled Soldiers of the Common Good" This was published in book form in 1907 under the title of Up rising of the Many"
 Russell won the Pulitzer prize for biography in 1927 for his book, "The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas" Music was a lifelong hob- by of Russell and Thomas was his hero from boyhood. In 1924 he pub lished biography of Julia Marlowe. He wrote in all thirty four books, including two volumes of poetry, and scores of articles.
 He was one of the last survivors of the "muckrakers,' who included, besides Steffens and Miss Tarbell, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Ray Stan- nard Baker, David Graham Phillips, Thomas w. Lawson and John L. Matthews Steffens, in his autobiog- raphy, wrote of Russell: He was one of the most earnest, emotional, and gifted of the muck rakers"
 Steffens regarded Russelrs social ism in its early stages as "a form of rest conviction a respite from | thinking.