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Originally Posted by JSWolf
if we go by life + 70 in the US, then they should all be PD in the US given that he died in 1935.
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That is a good general rule, but some of his work was not published until after his death. Thus, you don't know who owned the copyright. The publisher might have owned the copyright, which would mean the 95 year rule might apply. Also, his widow is still living, so she might have still held the copyrights on them.
This was not a simple case.