Question

The Associated Press sued this magazine for libel after the printing of a cartoon depicting the news giant “Poisoned at the Source.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this socialist magazine that was shut down in 1917 over its editors’ anti-war stances. Jack Reed covered the trial of “Big Bill” Haywood and other Wobblies for this graphic magazine.
ANSWER: The Masses
[10e] While reporting for The Masses, Reed penned a firsthand account of the October Revolution titled for this many days. Nellie Bly went undercover for this many days to write a piece on the asylum at Blackwell’s Island.
ANSWER: 10 days [or ten days; accept Ten Days in a Mad-House; accept Ten Days That Shook the World]
[10h] This editor of The Masses later married the sister of Nikolai Krylenko, a legal czar responsible for many Soviet show trials. After The Masses was shut down, this editor founded The Liberator with his sister, who co-founded the ACLU.
ANSWER: Max Eastman [or Max Forrester Eastman]
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