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...Received a group of U. S. citizens, self-dubbed "The Flying Squadron," who came to urge him to rush every possible aid to Great Britain. The delegation including Herbert Agar, editor, Louisville Courier-Journal; Chester Rowell, editor, San Francisco Chronicle; Maury Maverick, Mayor, San Antonio, Tex.; Lewis W. Douglas, president, Mutual Life Insurance...
Editor of the Courier-Journal since last January is lanky, solemn Herbert Agar, 43, onetime diplomat, novelist, critic, historian. For the last six months the Courier-Journal has been a fiery advocate of aid to Britain. Editor Agar was one of 30 U. S. citizens who announced last June that they were in favor of immediate war on Germany...
...Gallup poll last fortnight showed 58% of Kentucky's voters for Franklin Roosevelt. Editor Agar, after much soul-searching, spoke himself for Roosevelt too, and the Courier-Journal (like the Roosevelt-hating St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month) bought a page in the New York Times to announce its stand...
Mark Ethridge, general manager, Louisville Courier-Journal; Lewis Mummentator for New York Herald Tribune and other papers; Herbert Agar, editor, Louisville Courier-Journal; and Lucien Price, '07, editorial writer, Boston Globe
Once a conservative who believed that democracy had been a dismal failure, Editor Agar swung leftward with Roosevelt. His recent books are pious, eloquent, Democratic; his syndicated column, Time and Tide, has a resolutely New Deal aura. He takes his seat in Marse Henry's vacant office next January, at the close of a current lecture tour...