Word: cosmopolitan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States today is a cosmopolitan nation. . . . Citizens of true Anglo-Saxon origin are in meagre minority. During the last 60 years the millions of emigrants from Central Europe, Poles, Slavs, Italians, Sicilians, Jews, Russians, and the Danes, Finns and Swedes, have brought with them into their new home all of Continental Europe's age-old hatred of England...
Calvin Coolidge, autobiographer for Cosmopolitan magazine, interviewed in Manhattan last week, was asked if he liked to write. "I don't," he said. "Oh, I don't find it so difficult to sit and write about something that I know very well, such as my own life, but a career of writing...
Editor George Horace Lorimer's Saturday Evening Post has a weekly circulation of three million. Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan (owned by Publisher William Randolph Hearst) has a monthly circulation of 1,620,000. Lately these two able men have been engaged in a little game of magazine golf; and now the score is all even at the turn-Editor Long with Calvin Coolidge's autobiography appearing in Cosmopolitan; Editor Lorimer with a contract for the life story of Alfred Emanuel Smith tucked snugly away in his safe. Last week something occurred to bring forth the question...
Others gave another reason why Citizen Smith did not agree to write for Editor Long's Cosmopolitan. Publisher Hearst and Citizen Smith are far from friendly, and, it was said, when a Cosmopolitan spokesman asked why Smith had not suggested that he write for that magazine, a Smith spokesman replied...
Amusement, then approval, was the reaction of smart, cosmopolitan Buenos Aires last week to Amos Schwartzenstruber. A potent member of the Mennonite Mission Board of the U. S. and Canada is Mr. Schwartzenstruber. He reached Buenos Aires after an inspection tour through the Mennonite colony in Gran Chaco ("Great Hunting-Ground"), the remote and disputed region over which Bolivia and Paraguay were recently at war de facto if not de jure (TIME...