Word: contributors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book for professionals, the resulting opus is almost always full of old and obvious data mingled with much misleading and impertinent material. Even, if by some freak of good fortune, the academic mind should produce a sane work on some subject like article writing, the successful contributor to magazines can be heard to dismiss it with "I don't like it, even if it is good...
...This talk about the hard life of the college professor and the customary feeling of condescension toward him because of his financial situation is unwarranted and unjustifiable," writes an anonymous contributor to the current issue of the Alumni Weekly...
...appeared a quarterly titled USA. Its progenitors: "The group centering informally around the Centaur Bookshop ( Philadelphia)." Of the first edition, 2,000 copies were printed, price: $1 the copy. Lead-off article for Vol. 1 No. 1 was by Clifton C. Fadiman, editorial chief of Simon & Schuster (Manhattan publishers), contributor to The Nation. With lofty tolerance, he set about denning the Republic's culture and U S A's aim. Said he (italics...
Some hundred thousand dollars had been contributed to the new party's "war chest" by more than half a million persons. Suddenly they got their money back, every pence and pound of it, each contributor receiving a crisp cheque and a "personal" (mimeographed) letter from the leader of the party, the man who was to have been Prime Minister, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook...
Died. George Haven Putnam, 85, president of G. P. Putnam's Sons, Manhattan publishers; at Manhattan; of pernicious anemia. Author, contributor to encyclopaedias. Civil War major, founder of the English Speaking Union in the U. S., he was chiefly responsible for the international copyright bill of 1891, was accordingly made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...