Vita di J. Dewey
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Chronology of John Dewey'sLife and Work
The Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1928 "Philosophies of Freedom" published [LW3]


1928 "Philosophy" published [LW3]


1928 "An Appreciation of Henry George" published [LW3]


1928 "A Tribute to Morris Raphael Cohen" published [LW3]


1928 Chairman, National Committee of Legal Aid to Chinese in America [1952.06.02 (15948)]


1928? Alice Greeley Dewey born to Sabino and Edith


1928.01.** "Body and Mind" published [LW3]


1928.01.** "Why I Am a Member of the Teachers Union" published [LW3]


1928.01.11 "Justice Holmes and the Liberal Mind" published [LW3]


1928.01.31,02.01? Dinner with Salmon O. Levinson [1928.01.26 (02870); 1928.02.08 (02871)]


1928.02.15 "Philosophy as a Fine Art," review of George Santayana's The Realm of Essence, published [LW3]


1928.02.19-26 Lectures at University of Illinois, "The Course of Philosophy": "The Background," 20 February 1928; "The Story of Nature," 21 February 1928; "The Discovery of Rational Discourse," 22 February 1928; "The Search for Salvation," 23 February 1928; "The Conflict of Old Traditions and New Movements," 24 February 1928 [1928.02.17 (02875); 1928.02.27 (04909); Daily Illini, 19 February 1928, 1; ibid., 21 February 1928, 1; ibid., 22 February 1928, 1; ibid., 23 February 1928, 1; ibid., 24 February 1928, 1; ibid., 25 February 1928, 1]


1928.02.** Meets with Levinson in Chicago [1928.02.28 (02881)]


1928.02.** Evelyn Jane born to Lucy and Wolfgang Carl Brandauer [1929.06.10 (05221)]


1928.02.** Review of Robert H. Lowie's The Origin of the State published [LW3]


1928.02.28 Lunch with Shotwell, Page, and Chamberlain [1928.02.29 (02882)]


1928.03.07 "'As an Example to Other Nations'" published [LW3]


1928.03.08 Addresses Progressive Education Association, Eighth Annual Conference, Commodore Hotel, pamphlet, "Progressive Education and the Science of Education" [New York Times, 9 March 1928, 52; LW3]


1928.03.10 Offered Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, University of St. Andrews (JD was in Russia in June, apparently could not accept) [1928.03.10 (05858); 1928.04.23 (05876)]


1928.03.14 "Glad to give the lecture on the evening of March 14 [at New School]" [1927.10.24 (05053); 1927.10.24 (05054)]


1928.03.28 "Rejoinder to James T. Shotwell" published [LW3]


1928.03.28 Member of Foundation for Moral and Religious Leadership [Charles City (Iowa) Press, 10 July 1999, online database; New York Times, 14 March 1928, 19; 1928.05.12 (05884)]


1928.03.** "To the Chinese Friends in the United States" published [LW3]


1928.04.06? "Appt to meet him [James T. Shotwell] tomorrow" [1928.04.05? (02894)]


1928.04.08 "On Immortality" published [LW17]


1928.04.10 Addresses Teachers College, Columbia University, at installation of Dean William Fletcher Russell, "The Direction of Education" [LW13]


1928.04.18 "Things, Thought, Conversation," review of Scott Buchanan's Possibility and Mortimer Adler's Dialectic, published [LW3]


1928.04.** "The Inclusive Philosophic Idea" published [LW3]


1928.04.28 "The Direction of Education" published [LW3]

1928.05.** "China and the Powers" published [LW3]


1928.05.15 Guest of honor at dinner at Town Hall, American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia


1928.05.16 Presented with Jacob Epstein bust by Kilpatrick, Henry Street Settlement Building [Dykhuizen, 235; 1928.05.16 (04534)]


1928.05.16 "Outlawing Peace by Discussing War" published [LW3]


1928.05.19 Sails for Russia with Elizabeth Braley Dewey on George Washington; lands Plymouth, England, 27 May; tours Western Europe [Diary] [1928.05.18 (02899)]


1928.06.1-14 In London


1928.06.** "Motored from Plymouth to Oxford" [1928.06.20 (05438)]


1928.06.** Attends dinner hosted by Stanton Coit [1928.06.20 (05438)]


1928.06.15-28 In Paris [1928.06.27 (05218)]


1928.06.21 Trip to Loire chateaux [1928.06.20 (05438)]


1928.06.21 "Meaning and Existence" published [LW3]


1928.06.** Review of Carleton Kemp Allen's Law in the Making published [LW3]


1928.06.28 "Expect to leave for Berlin the 28th. . . fly to Leningrad" [1928.06.20 (05438); 1928.06.27 (05218)]


1928.06.29 Leaves for Russia [1928.06.27 (05218)]


1928.06.30-07.01 In Berlin [1928.06.27 (05218)]


1928.07.02 Arrives in Leningrad; Evelyn joins JD and Elizabeth


1928.07.07 "Brave Gospel," review of Mary H. Lewis's An Adventure with Children, published [LW3]


1928.07.13 Arrives in Moscow, educational survey of Soviet Russia


1928.07.15 Invited "to visit the Great USSR Trotting Derby" [1928.07.14 (05897)]


1928.07.18 Attends conference at Second University, Moscow [1928.07.20 (05904)]


1928.07.20 Attends reception by Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, hosted by Mme. Kameneff, attended by Lunarcharsky [New York Times, 22 July 1928, 6]

1928.07.28 Leaves for Vienna [1928.07.25 (05717)]


1928.07.** Motor trip through Austria? [1928.08.13 (05718); 1928.09.06 (05439)]


1928.07.30-09.06 Vienna, c/o Brandauer [1928.07.25 (05717); 1928.08.08 (05219); 1928.08.13 (05718)]


1928.09.07 Leaves for Carlsbad for about ten days [1928.09.06 (05439)]


1928.10.01 "Shall be in NY Oct 1." [1928.09.06 (05439)]


1928.10.01 Asked "to serve as First Vice Chairman" of People's Legislative Service "Save Our Schools Committee" [1928.10.01 (05909)]


1928.10.06 "I have only just returned from Europe" [1928.10.06 (11801)]


1928.10.12-14 "Out of town over this week end; back late Sunday evening" [1928.10.10 (03004)]


1928.10.** "A Critique of American Civilization" published [LW3]


1928.11.** Listed as one of sponsors of The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti and on National Advisory Committee of the Sacco-Vanzetti National League [DNA-II, FBI Records, File 61-6589]


1928.11.01 Addresses College League for Alfred E. Smith, Hotel Biltmore [New York World, 2 November 1928; Evening World Herald (Omaha), 2 November 1928]


1928.11.** Meets with Alfred E. Smith [New York World, 3 November 1928]


1928.11.07 "Why I Am for Smith" published [LW3]


1928.11.09 Attends unveiling of John Dewey bust by Jacob Epstein, philosophy of education library, Teachers College, Columbia University [Dykhuizen, 235]


1928.11.09 Addresses American Federation of Teachers, New York, "Freedom in Workers' Education" [Dykhuizen, 231; LW5]


1928.11.10 Addresses American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia, Hotel Astor [New York Times, 11 November 1928, sec. 1, 22]


1928.11.** Addresses Teachers College, "Education in Soviet Russia" [New York Times, 6 December 1928, 6]


1928.11.14 Impressions of Soviet Russia: I. Leningrad Gives the Clue published [LW3]


1928.11.21 Impressions of Soviet Russia: II. A Country in a State of Flux published [LW3]

1928.11.24 First vice-chairman, Save-Our-Schools Committee [New York Times, 28 November 1928, sec. 2, 1]


1928.11.28 Impressions of Soviet Russia: III. A New World in the Making published [LW3]


1928.12.** Attends Kilpatrick's Discussion Group for first time [Dennis, From Prayer to Pragmatism, 56]


1928.12.01 "The Way to Think," review of Ernest Dimnet's The Art of Thinking, published [LW3]


1928.12.05 Addresses Teachers College, "Education in Soviet Russia" [New York Times, 6 November 1928, sec. 2, 6]


1928.12.05 Impressions of Soviet Russia: IV. What Are the Russian Schools Doing published [LW3]


1928.12.12 Impressions of Soviet Russia: V. New Schools for a New Era published [LW3]


1928.12.15 Meets to form League for Independent Political Action (LIPA), International House, New York; elected to Provisional Executive Committee [PSC-P, Devere Allen Papers, Document Group 53]


1928.12.19 Impressions of Soviet Russia: VI. The Great Experiment and the Future published [LW3]


1929 The Quest for Certainty published [LW4]


1929 Sources of a Science of Education published [LW5]


1929 "Philosophy" published [LW5]


1929 Foreword to Helen Edna Davis's Tolstoy and Nietzsche published [LW5]


1929 Foreword to Eastern Commercial Teachers' Association First Yearbook, Foundation of Commercial Education, published [LW5]


1929 Introduction to Henry Evelyn Bliss's The Organization of Knowledge and the System of the Sciences published [LW5]


1929 Introduction to Maurice Hindus's Humanity Uprooted published [LW5]


1929 Foreword to Fischel Schneersohn's Studies in Psycho-Expedition published [LW5]


1929 Introduction to Training for Group Experience, edited by Alfred Dwight Sheffield, published [LW5]

1929.01.** "Freedom in Workers' Education" published [LW5]


1929.01.09 "Labor Politics and Labor Education" published [LW5]


1929.02.17 Leaves for "west," Chicago and Cleveland [1929.02.13 (04243); 1929.03.04 (04245)]


1929.02.18 Lectures at E. S. Ames's University Church of Disciples of Christ, Chicago [DVFM 25]


1929.02.18-20? Lectures at Northwestern University, downtown campus and Evanston,"Conflicts in Educational Philosophy" [N. U. Alumni News, April 1929, 32; 1929.01.28 (06851)]


1929.02.18-24? Lunch hosted by Prof. Moore in Chicago [1929.02.11 (03024)]


1929.02.20 "Reply to Woll" published [LW5]


1929.02.21 Lectures under auspices of William Vaughn Moody Foundation, University of Chicago, "The Russian School System"; at Quadrangle Club [1928.10.30 (05083); 1929.01.28 (06851); 1929.02.17 (07482); LW17]


1929.02.22 Invited to dine with Curtiss, Cowling, and perhaps Levinson at University Club, Chicago [1929.02.09 (03022)]


1929.02.26 Addresses Department of Superintendence, National Education Association, Cleveland, "General Principles of Educational Articulation" [1928.10.30 (05083); LW5]


1929.02.26 Addresses Kappa Delta Pi Society, Cleveland, "The Sources of a Science of Education" [1928.11.28 (05915); LW5]


1929.03.03 "Didn't get home till last night" [1929.03.04 (03031)]


1929.03.05 Talks with Norton about Experience and Nature [1929.03.06 (05264)]


1929.03.07 Delivers William H. Baldwin, Jr., lecture at Smith College, Sage Hall, "The Educational Situation in Russia" [Smith College Weekly, 6 March 1929, 1; 1929.03.04 (04245)]


1929.03.13 "Mr. Woll as a Communist-Catcher" published [LW5]


1929.03.14 Sails for London [1929.01.04 (05719); 1929.02.12 (05721); 1929.03.04 (03031)]


1929.03.24-04.14? In London for three weeks at Regent Palace Hotel [1929.05.05 (05394)]


1929.04.10 "The School and Society," review of George S. Counts's School and Society in Chicago, published [LW5]


1929.04.15 Leaves for Edinburgh, five weeks at Roxburghe Hotel, Charlotte Square [1929.05.05 (05394)]


1929.04.17-05.17 Gifford Lecturer, University of Edinburgh [1928.03.28 (05225); 1928.04.26 (05227); 1929.02.12 (05721); LW4]


1929.05.04 Honorary degree of Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland [1929.05.06 (05395)]


1929.05.04 "Last night I went to a 'hostel'," saw "Galsworthy's Escape" [1929.05.05 (05394)]


1929.05.11 Leaves Edinburgh for Aberdeen [1929.05.14 (05396)]


1929.05.13 Returns to Edinburgh [1929.05.14 (05397)]


1929.05.15 Visits ruins of castle where Mary Queen of Scots was born [1929.05.16 (05398)]


1929.05.17 Leaves for London [1929.05.10 (05723); 1929.05.11 (05396); 1929.05.16 (05398)]


1929.05.18 Leaves London by train [1929.05.10 (05723)]


1929.05.19 Stops in Frankfurt; meets Sidney Hook [1929.05.10 (05723); 1929.05.16 (05398)]


1929.05.21 Visits Lucy in Vienna [1929.05.16 (05398)]


1929.05.** "Apostles of World Unity" published [LW5]


1929.05-? People's Lobby, president 1929-1936


1929.05.25 Elected chairman of National Committee of League for Independent Political Action (LIPA), not present at meeting [PSC-P, Devere Allen Papers, Document Group 53]


1929.06.** Honorary degree, University of St. Andrews [1929.05.05 (05394)]


1929.06.** In Vienna, Austria [1929.06.10 (05221)]


1929.07.03 Voted life membership in National Education Association


1929.07.27 In Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia [1929.07.27 (05399)]


1929.08.05 Leaves Carlsbad [1929.07.27 (05399)]


1929.08.20 Returns to New York [1929.08.22 (04812); 1929.08.24 (04809)]


1929.08.23 Attends third anniversary Sacco-Vanzetti meeting [1929.07.02 (05241); 1930.04.11 (06632)]


1929.09.08 Announcement of formation of LIPA, with Dewey as chairman [New York Times, 9 September 1929, 1; Dykhuizen, 230]


1929.09.** "10 days in [Hubbards] Nova Scotia" [1929.09.22 (06939)]


1929.09-? National Mooney-Billings Committee [1929.09.16 (05959)]


1929.09-? Norman Thomas Non-Partisan Committee, vice-chairman [New York Times, 30 September 1929, 5; 1929.10.08 (05233)]


1929.09.16-20 In Lisle and Rochester, NY [1929.09.21 (08237)]


1929.10.** Attends various birthday celebrations


1929.10.** October issue of Hawaii Educational Review, published by Department of Public Instruction, dedicated to JD [1929.10.07 (06113)]


1929.10.13 Radio address, WOR, LIPA, "Assails Major Parties" [New York Times, 14 October 1929, 2; 1929.10.14 (17271)]


1929.10.14 "Lobby Inquiry Opens Tomorrow" published [LW5]


1929.10.14 "John Dewey Assails the Major Parties" published [LW5]


1929.10.16 "What Do Liberals Want?" published [LW5]


1929.10.18 Meeting in honor of JD's 70th birthday, Horace Mann Auditorium, Teachers College, Columbia University


1929.10.19 Program in honor of JD's 70th birthday, Philosophy Hall, Columbia University


1929.10.19 Luncheon in honor of JD's 70th birthday, Hotel Astor, New York; presented with life membership in National Education Association of the United States [1929.10.04 (05427)]


1929.10.19 Member of National Council, United States Federation of Justice [1929.10.19 (06265)]


1929.10.20 "Spent the day in the country with Freds family," Great Neck, L.I. [1929.10.26 (05070); New York Times, 21 October 1929]


1929.10.24 May have attended banquet of Norman Thomas Non-Partisan Committee at Aldine Club, New York [1929.10.22 (04833)]


1929.10.26 "An Organic Universe," review of Alfred N. Whitehead's Process and Reality, published [LW5]


1929.10.25? "Shall probably have to be in Phila . . . about Oct 25th" [1929.09.21? (08237)]

1929.10.26 Writes "Letter to University of Michigan School of Education" [LW5]


1929.11.03 Addresses campaign rally for Norman Thomas, Brooklyn Academy of Music [New York Times, 4 November 1929, 2]


1929.11.04 Honorary president, Progressive Education Association [1929.11.04 (06343)]


1929.11.16 "Juvenile Reading" published [LW5]


1929.11.17 Addresses reception in his honor, MacDowell Club, "Links Philosophy to Life" [New York Times, 18 November 1929, 2]


1929.11.21 Addresses dinner honoring founding of American Hebrew publication, Plaza Hotel [New York Times, 22 November 1929, 28]


1929.11.26 Addresses University of Vermont, university gymnasium, "Coleridge, Marsh and the Spiritual Philosophy" ("James Marsh and American Philosophy" [Burlington Free Press and Times, 25 November 1929, 9; Cynic, 22 November 1929; ibid., 26 November 1929, 1,2; Vermont Alumni Weekly 9 (11 December 1929): 163-64,170; 1929.11.21 (04853); 1929.12.09 (04807); LW5]


1929.11.** Visits John Rich, Swanton, and the Hoyts [1929.12.09 (04807)]


1929.11.29 "Understanding and Prejudice" published [LW15]


1929.12.02-6 Delivers lectures at Ohio State University under auspices of the Department of Principles of Education, College of Education: "Attitudes and Facts: Philosophy and Science," "Conflict of Attitudes and Philosophies," "The Individual and the Psychological Factor," "Education and the Social Factor," "The New Party Movement," "The Autonomy of Education" [Ohio State University Monthly 21 (December 1929): 123; Ohio State Journal, 2 December 1929, 1; ibid., 3 December 1929, 3; ibid., 4 December 1929, 1; ibid., 6 December 1929, 10; Lantern, 2 December 1929,1; ibid., 3 December 1929, 1; 4 December 1929, 1; ibid., 5 December 1929; ibid., 9 December 1929, 1; 1929.11.11 (17272); 1929.11.18 (04251)]


1929.12.11 Stricken "with an attack of ptomaine poisoning" [1929.12.11 (04852)]


1929.12.13 Addresses People's Lobby in Philadelphia [1929.11.28 (04251); 1929.12.13 (05724)]


1929.12.15 Returns to New York [1929.12.13 (05724)]


1929.12.19 Address, School of Commerce Building, New York University [1929.12.16 (04854); 1929.12.19 (04855); 1929.12.20 (05726); New York Times, 20 December 1929, 16]


1929.12.19 "The Sphere of Application of the Excluded Middle" published [LW5]


1929.12.24 Trip to Bermuda with Evelyn cancelled; goes to Hibernia, FL, "got here Tuesday morning" [1929.11.28 (04251); 1929.12.17 (05441); 1929.12.27 (05441)]


1929.12.26 "Attacks Wage Disparity" published [LW5]


1929.12.28 Address read to American Philosophical Association, Faculty Club of Columbia, "In Reply to Some Criticisms" [LW5]


1929.12.30 "Child Relief Steps Urged on Congress" published [LW5]


1929-1930 University Lecture Series, Burlington [Vermont Alumni Weekly 9 (6 November 1929): 89]


1930 Individualism, Old and New published [LW5]


1930 "From Absolutism to Experimentalism" published [LW5]


1930 "Conduct and Experience" published [LW5]


1930 "In Response" published [LW5]


1930 "In Defense of Mary Ware Dennett's The Sex Side of Life" published [LW17]


1930 Editor, with Carl Murchison, Journal of Social Psychology


1930 Founding board member, director, Macy Foundation, until 1944 [Bergenn, unpublished; The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation: 1930-55 (New York, 1955)]


1930-1933 Vice-chairman, City Affairs Committee [Blanshard, Personal and Controversial (Boston: Beacon Press, 1973)]


1930.01.** Vice-president of League for Industrial Democracy [L.I.D. Monthly 8 (January 1920): 2]


1930.01.** "Qualitative Thought" published [LW5]


1930.01.05 Returns from vacation in "the south" [1930.01.06 (03037)]


1930.01.09 Meets with Agnes E. Meyer [1930.01.10 (07574)]


1930.01.09 First publication of Journal of Social Psychology; founded by Dewey and Carl Murchison [A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology, 178]


1930.01.10 Speaks at "sendoff dinner" for world cruise by Will and Ariel Durant, Aldine Club, New York [New Yorker, 18 January 1930, 12-13; Durant, A Dual Autobiography, 142-43]


1930.01.13 Accepts invitation to deliver William James Lectures in 1931 [1930.01.13 (08136)]

1930.02.** "I was out of town for a few days" [1930.02.09 (09267)]


1930.02.10 Appointed "William James Lecturer on Philosophy," Harvard


1930.02.12 Addresses birthday dinner of Abraham Lincoln Foundation, Hotel Commodore [New York Times, 13 February 1930, 17]


1930.02.25 Addresses Institute of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, Milton Judson Davies Memorial Lecture, "Construction and Criticism" [LW5]


1930.02.** "Psychology and Work" published [LW5]


1930.02.** "Censorship" published [LW5]


1930.03.03 Resignation from Columbia accepted; recommended for Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in Residence [1930.03.03 (06396)]


1930.03.07 Attends meeting of Executive Committee of LIPA, Advertising Club, New York [PSC-P, Devere Allen Papers, Document Group 53]


1930.03.14 Lunch at Men's Faculty Club, with Mei Lan Fang, Plimpton, et al. [1930.03.06 (07553)]


1930.03.22 Leaves New York for Chicago on the Broadway [1930.03.11 (04256); 1930.03.21 (05730)]


1930.03.25 Arrives in Los Angeles [1930.03.11 (04256)]


1930.03.27 "The Applicability of Logic to Existence" published [LW5]


1930.03.27 Attends banquet at Biltmore, Los Angeles [1930.03.28-29 (08230)]


1930.03.28 Speaks at morning meeting [1930.03.28-29 (08230)]


1930.03.28 Addresses University of California, Los Angeles, Dedication Ceremonies for new campus, "Philosophy and Education" [LW5]


1930.03.28 Receives honorary LL.D., UCLA [Los Angeles Examiner (clip file), 28 March 1930; 1930.03.28-29 (08230)]


1930.03.29 Lunch at University of Southern California [1930.03.28-29 (08230)]


1930.03.29 Addresses parents of progressive school at Helen Russell's [1930.03.28-29 (08230)]


1930.03.29 City Affairs General Committee, member [New York Times, 30 March 1930, 23]


1930.03.30 Addresses Philosophical Union, "The World of Interpretation and the World of Description" [California Daily Bruin, 27 March 1930; 1930.03.28-29 (08230)]


1930.03.** "What I Believe" published [LW5]


1930.04.01 Leaves Los Angeles [1930.03.03 (04254)]


1930.04.** Visits Santa Fe [1930.04.10,11 [08231)]


1930.04.** "Religion in the Soviet Union" published [LW5]


1930.04.07 "Took the bus to Taos" [1930.04.10,11 (08231)]


1930.04.08 "Get our train east" from Santa Fe? [1930.04.10,11 (08231)]


1930.04.11 Back in New York [1930.04.11 (09270)]


1930.04.22 "Have a seminar on Tuesdays" [1930.01.13 (18687)]


1930.04.23-24 "Planning to come over [Boston] . . . the 23rd . . . returning on the evening of the 24th" [1930.04.14 (18688)]


1930.04.24 In Boston for banquet, "Ford Hall Forum" [1930.01.17 (06380)]


1930.05.01-02 Arrives in Cleveland; at Oberlin College, stays with Wilkins; addresses Causey conference on the future of political parties [1930.04.15 (08259)]


1930.05.03 In Philadelphia [1930.04.25 (08260)]


1930.05.06 Back in New York [1930.05.06 (08261)]


1930.05.08 "In Reply to Some Criticisms" published [LW5]


1930.05.10 Scheduled to speak at Hull-House, representing early Hull-House Trustees [Jane Addams and Ellen Starr to Edith Abbott, 1930.04.25 (12411)]


1930.05.12 "Asks Federal Fund to Aid Unemployed" published [LW5]


1930.05.16-17 Addresses first annual conference of the LIPA, Washington, DC; JD, chairman, speaks at banquet, May 16, ìPolitical Change in American Life,î City Club, Washington, DC; reelected chairman of the National Committee [American Labor Year Book, 1931; League for Independent Political Action New Bulletin, June 1930, I, 2, p. 1; program, PSC-P, Devere Allen Papers, Document Group 53]


1930.05.27 Sponsors S. O. Levinson for Nobel Peace Prize


1930.06.** "What Humanism Means to Me" published [LW5]


1930.06.10-07.21 In Hubbards, Nova Scotia [1930.06.09 (05734); 1930.06.14? (07406); 1930.06.21 (04261); 1930.06.25 (03046)]


1930.06.30 Begins retirement [1930.03.03 (06396)]


1930.07.09 "How Much Freedom in New Schools?" published [LW5]


1930.07.21 "Expect to leave here Monday the 21st . . . see some friends in Kennebunk Beach Maine (Levinsons?)" [1930.07.16 (09277)]


1930.07.21 "Asks Hoover to Act on Unemployment" published [LW5]


1930.08.02 "Back [New York] about a week now" [1930.08.09? (07199)]


1930.08-09 Several visits to Barnes, Merion, PA


1930.08.** "Our Illiteracy Problem" published [LW5]


1930.08.09 "The Duties and Responsibilities of the Teaching Profession" published [LW5]


1930.08.15-22 In Lisle, NY [1930.08.13 (04262)]


1930.08.24 In Ithaca [1930.08.24 (04263); 1930.08.24 (17275)]


1930.08.28 In New York [1930.08.24 (04263); 1930.08.28 (04265); 1930.08.28 (05733)]


1930.08.30-09.01 In Montauk, NY, with Evelyn [1930.08.28 (04265)]


1930.09 Vice-chairman, City Affairs Committee of New York [PSC-P, Devere Allen Papers, Document Group 53]

1930.09.01-22? In Hubbards, Nova Scotia [1930.08.28 (04265); 1930.09.19 (04267)]


1930.09.15 "Dewey Supports Vladeck" published [LW5]


1930.09.27-30 In Merion, PA [1930.09.19 (04266); 1930.09.19 (04267)]


1930.09.30 Testifies for Barnes [1930.10.01 (04269)]


1930.10.05 "Speech for Norman Thomas's Congressional Campaign" [1930.10.04 (04270)]


1930.10.06 "All day conference of Peoples Lobby, on unemployment" [1930.10.04 (04270)]

1930.10.11-12 "Expect to come down (to Merion) next week end" [1930.10.04 (04270)]


1930.10.14 Meets with J. Ratner and E. Lindeman [1930.10.09 (07541)]


1930.10.25 Sails for Europe on Europa


1930.10.26 "Puts Needs of Idle at Two Billions" published [LW5]


1930.10.30 Lands in Paris [1930.10.29 (09280); 1930.10.30 (05206)]


1930.11.07 Addresses French Philosophical Society, Paris, "Three Independent Factors in Morals" [LW5]


1930.11.08 Honorary degree, University of Paris [Eastman, "John Dewey"; San Francisco Chronicle, 9 November 1930; 1930.07.07 (06504); 1930.10.20 (03048); 1930.10.30 (05206)]


1930.11.09? Goes to Vienna [1930.11.01 (08039)]


1930.11.24 "People's Lobby Hits Sugar Loan to Cuba" published [LW5]


1930.11.26 Sails for New York [1930.11.01 (08039)]


1930.12.03 Arrives in New York [1930.12.04 (08041)]


1930.12.10 Writes "Tribute to James H. Tufts" [LW5]


1930.12.24-? Visits with Matisse [1930.12.26 (04278); 1931.01.01 (09281)]


1930.12.25 In Great Neck for Christmas [1930.12.26 (04278)]


1930.12.26 In New York [1930.12.26 (04278)]


1930.12.26 "Dewey Asks Norris to Lead New Party" published [LW5]


1930.12.28 "Dewey for Farm Backing" published [LW5]


1930.12.30 Addresses New History Society, New York, "The Irrepressible Conflict" [Dykhuizen, 252; LW6]


1930.12.** "The Course of Modern History," review of Harry Elmer Barnes's World Politics in Modern Civilization, published [LW5]


1930-1931 Honorary chairman, Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America


1931 "Social Change and Its Human Direction" published [LW5]


1931 Member American Civil Liberties Union, National Committee on Labor Injunctions [New York Times, 5 January 1931, 2]


1931 Honorary chairman, Hessian Hills School Building Committee [Progressive Education 8 (May 1931): 403]


1931 Introduction to Jagadish Chandra Chatterji's India's Outlook on Life published [LW6]


1931 Organizes People's Lobby Joint Committee on Unemployment, chairman


1931.01.** "The Irrepressible Conflict" published [LW6]


1931.01.** Listed as vice-president of All America Reciprocity Union [1931.01.01 (09105)]


1931.01.01 "Starting on my railway trip tomorrow" [1930.12.31 (07537); 1930.12.31 (07540); 1931.01.01 (09281)]


1931.01.03? In Chicago? [1931.01.01 (09281)]


1931.01.08 On Santa Fe Chief en route to California [1931.01.08 (08232)]


1931.01.14 In Berkeley, speaks to students in morning [1931.01.08 (08232)]


1931.01.14 Delivers George Holmes Howison Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, Context and Thought [San Francisco Chronicle, 15 January 1931; LW6]


1931.01.14 Leaves Berkeley


1931.01.19-24 Chairs Curriculum Conference for the College of Liberal Arts, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL [1931.01.01 (09281); LW6]


1931.01.26 "Urges Tax on Rich to Meet Debts Cut" published [LW6]


1931.01.31 Returns to New York [1931.01.31 (08154); 1931.02.02 (04282)]


1931.02.** "The Jobless--A Job for All of Us" published [LW6]


1931.02.** "A Statement by the Executive Committee" published [LW6]


1931.02.03 Accepts membership on Sponsoring Committees of Consumers' Research [1931.02.03 (08156)]


1931.02.04 "College Sons--and Parents," review of Christian Gauss's Life in College, published [LW6]


1931.02.07 "Prof. Dewey Is Impressed by Discontent" published [LW6]


1931.02.09 Lecture at Rand School [1931.02.12 (08118)]

1931.02.13 Addresses LIPA, Hotel Woodstock [New Leader 8 (7 February 1931): 6]


1931.02.17 Arrives in Cambridge, staying at Lowell House [1931.02.04 (08157); 1931.02.20 (04283)]


1931.02.18 Seminar in logical theory [1931.02.03 (08156); 1931.02.20 (04283)]


1931.02.24-05.12 William James Lectures, "Art and the Aesthetic Experience," Harvard, first appointee [1931.02.25 (05735)]


1931.02.26-27 In New York [1931.02.24 (06946)]


1931.03.05 Testimonial dinner in JD's honor, Socialist Club, Harvard [Crimson, 4 March 1931, 4]


1931.03.11 Delivers Inglis Lecture in Secondary Education at Harvard, The Way Out of Educational Confusion [LW6]


1931.03.13-15 In New York [1931.03.09 (07394)]


1931.03.14 "Dewey Raps Progressives on Parley Eve" published [LW6]


1931.03.18,25,04.01,08 "The Need for a New Party" published [LW6]


1931.03.21 Addresses Harvard Teachers Association, "Appreciation and Cultivation" [LW6]


1931.03.30 "Urges State-Aid Plan for Work Insurance" published [LW6]


1931.03.30 Addresses Harvard Business School, "The Drift and Control of Business"


1931.04.02 Addresses Harvard Classical Club, "An Interpretation of Pre-Socratic Philosophy" [1931.04.02 (08233)]


1931.04.05 At niece's (Dorothy) for Easter [1931.04.02 (08233)]


1931.04.09 Addresses American Federation of Teachers, Cambridge, MA, "Teachers as Citizens" [Dykhuizen, 256]


1931.04.10 Elected to Goethean Literary Society [Historical Account of the Goethean Literary Society]


1931.04.10-13 In New York [1931.04.02 (08233)]


1931.04.12 Addresses twenty-fifth anniversary dinner of Rand School of Social Science, "Education and Social Progress" [program, Rand School 25th anniversary dinner; 1931.04.12 (08234)]


1931.04.13 Radio address, WEAF, National Broadcasting Company, "Full Warehouses and Empty Stomachs" [New York Times, 13 April 1931, 13; LW6]

1931.04.15 "'Surpassing America,'" review of Sherwood Eddy's The Challenge of Russia; George S. Counts's The Soviet Challenge to America; and William C. White's These Russians, published [LW6]


1931.04.23 Lectures at Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Jesup Hall, "The Philosophy of a Liberal Mind" [Williams Review, 21 April 1931, 1,5; ibid., 25 April 1,4; 1931.04.08 (18689)]


1931.04.24-25 At Amherst College, Amherst, MA [Williams Review, 28 April 1931, 1,3]


1931.04.27 Leaves for Chicago to attend Mead's funeral [1931.04.27 (05143)]


1931.04.29 "A Philosophy of Scientific Method," review of Morris R. Cohen's Reason and Nature, published [LW6]


1931.04.30 Delivers eulogy at memorial service for George Herbert Mead, Joseph Bond Chapel, Chicago, "George Herbert Mead as I Knew Him" [LW6]


1931.04.** "Appreciation and Culture" published [LW6]


1931.04? Listed as educational adviser to John Dewey School, Los Angeles [Progressive Education 8 (May 1931): 403]


1931.05.02 Speaks at Bryn Mawr in honor of Jane Addams [College News {Bryn Mawr}, 6 May 1931, 1]


1931.05.04 Returns to Cambridge via Bryn Mawr from Chicago [1931.04.27 (05143); 1931.05.04 (08007)]


1931.05.12 Addresses joint meeting of Liberal and Socialist Clubs, "Full Warehouses and Empty Stomachs" [LW6]


1931.05.22 Presides at LIPA banquet, "Chaos or Planning in American Life," "The Breakdown of Politics and Way Out," New School for Social Research [News Bulletin of the League for Independent Political Action, April 1931, I, 7]


1931.05.23 Addresses LIPA with Harry W. Laidler, "The Road to Mastery; A Realignment in Politics," New School for Social Research; reelected national chairman [News Bulletin of the League for Independent Political Action, April 1931, I, 7; New York Herald Tribune, 24 May 1931, 16]


1931.05.23 Reelected president of LIPA


1931.05.** "Is There Hope for Politics?" published [LW6]


1931.05.** "Full Warehouses and Empty Stomachs" published [LW6]


1931.06.01 Possibly attends People's Lobby meeting at Raleigh Hotel, Washington, to discuss organizing public opinion for unemployment insurance [New York Times, 1 June 1931, 4]


1931.06.04 "George Herbert Mead as I Knew Him" published [LW6]


1931.06.09 Addresses commencement, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, "Science and Society" [LW6]


1931.06.17 "Reply to Cohen's 'Reason, Nature and Professor Dewey'" published [LW6]


1931.06.** Review of Frederick Hallis's Corporate Personality published [LW6]


1931.06.** "The President and the Special Session" published [LW6]


1931.06.** "Secretary Klein Asked Basis for Optimism" published [LW6]


1931.06.** "Challenge to Progressive Senators to Act for Relief" published [LW6]


1931.07.09 Lunch with Wilkins [1931.06.30 (08266); 1931.07.02 (08267)]


1931.07.** "Science and Society" published [LW6]


1931.07.** People's Lobby committee to offset propaganda against Russian Soviet Union, chairman [New York Times, 29 July 1931, 34]


1931.07.** Review of George Herbert Palmer's The Autobiography of a Philosopher; Ralph Barton Perry's A Defence of Philosophy; and George Santayana's The Genteel Tradition at Bay, published [LW6]


1931.07.** "The Key to Hoover's Keynote Speech" published [LW6]


1931.07.** "Lobby Challenges Senator Borah's Opposition to Reconsideration of Interallied Debts" published [LW6]


1931.07.15? Moves to 320 E. 72nd St. around July 15 [1931.07.13 (05737)]


1931.07.** Granddaughter Evelyn Jane Brandauer dies [1931.07.24 (03058)]


1931.07.** Visits family at Lake Sunapee and Centre Harbor [1931.07.24 (03058)]


1931.07.24 In Hubbards, Nova Scotia; "came up through New Hampshire and central Maine" [1931.07.24 (03058)]

1931.07.29 "Social Science and Social Control" published [LW6]


1931.08.22 Travels to Vienna upon learning of granddaughter's (Evelyn Jane Brandauer) death; sails on Europa [1931.07.24 (03058); 1931.08.** (05151)]


1931.08.26 "The People's Lobby" published [LW6]


1931.08.29 On Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen [1931.08.29 (17284)]


1931.08.** "Rejoinder to Secretary Klein" published [LW6]


1931.08.** "President Dewey Opposes Blanket Freight Increase" published [LW6]


1931.09.** "President Dewey Calls on Hoover to Recognize Government Responsibility for Unemployment" published [LW6]


1931.09.** "President Dewey Opposes Community Chest Drives for Unemployed" published [LW6]


1931.09.21 Leaves Vienna on Europa [1931.08.** (05151)]


1931.09.** Stops two days in Berlin [1931.09.29 (07632)]


1931.09.25 Radio address, WEAF, "Men of America" series, National Advisory Council on Radio in Education, "American Education Past and Future" [New York Times, 26 October 1931, 19; LW6]


1931.09.27 Returns to New York, 320 E. 72nd St. [1931.08.** (05151)]


1931.10.16-18? Attends party at Estelle Roberta Lowitz's, Pittsburgh [1931.10.23 (06525)]


1931.10.27 Accepts offer of honorary membership in Goethean Literary Society, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA [1931.10.27 (07622)]


1931.10.30,31 Addresses Chicago Regional White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, Palmer House, "Child Health and Protection" [LW17]


1931.10.** "Teachers as Citizens" published [LW6]


1931.11.02 Announcement of Joint Committee on Unemployment, JD chairman [Baltimore Sun, 2 November 1931]


1931.11.04 "Setting New Goals at Seventy," interview by William Engle, published [LW6]


1931.11.11 Visits Jane and Alston in Haverford, PA [1931.11.09 (04301)]


1931.11.24 Attends LIPA meeting with Villard, Allen et al. [1931.11.24 (11759); Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr, 72]

1931.11.30 Addresses conference of the Joint Committee on Unemployment, Washington, Hamilton Hotel [New York Times, 1 December 1931, 20; Washington Post, 1 December 1931, 12

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