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...first eleven years of its life the New Leader was the organ of the Socialist Party. Since the Party's split in 1935 into militantly Marxist and New Dealish segments, the weekly has been the voice of the New Dealish group, which calls itself the Social Democratic Federation. Social Democrats combine the pragmatism of Philosopher John Dewey (a frequent New Leader contributor) with, as their name implies, a desire for "democratic socialism." They are pro-trade union and wish there were more union leaders like the garment workers' David Dubinsky. Beyond that they disagree among themselves on pros...
Newspaper competition comes next week to war-big San Diego (estimated pop. 390,000; 1940 pop. 203-341). Clinton Dotson McKinnon announced that the first edition of his New Dealish evening Journal would be published on St. Patrick's Day (because his mother was Irish). The Journal will break the San Diego general newspaper monoply of rich, myopic, 79-year-old Colonel Ira Clifton Copley owner of the arch-Republican morning Union (circ. 44,359) and evening Tribune-Sun (circ...
...Chicago Sun. Getting it, he graciously accepted the draft. If he wins the Democratic primary, he will fight it out next November with the G.O.P.'s handsome, grey Governor Dwight Green, able, amiable yes-man of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune. The New Dealish Sun gave a well-modulated cheer: "[Courtney] has an opportunity to spearhead a fighting campaign to rescue Illinois from ... the G.O.P.'s worst tory-isolationists...
...been done; he wanted to get back to his Nashville Tennessean. Speculated reasons: 1) long-simmering incompatibility between Field and Evans; 2) Field's realization (probably with Washington prodding) that in business-minded, conservative Evans he had the wrong man to run a newspaper tinted with New Dealish liberalism...
Social Life. Black Mountain's faculty of 20 includes a batch of noted European refugees, such as Artist Josef Albers of the Bauhaus (TIME, Dec. 19, 1938), and New Dealish Americans such as Econo mist Clark Foreman...