Word: editor
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...associate professor of English in 1929. By 1935, with The Great Tradition, a Marxist survey of U. S. literature since the Civil War, and a stream of contributions to leftist journals, he had established himself as a partisan but respected critic of letters. He had also become an editor of the New Masses and a known Red. Rensselaer unceremoniously kicked him out on the pretext of "retrenchment,"' but the American Association of University Professors said he had been fired because he was a radical. Since then Hicks has written a biography of Radical John Reed, continued free-lance writing...
...hired as an actual instructor of classes. He will write a book, live in Adams House, counsel upperclassmen, organize discussions under the house plan. He said he would willingly sign the Massachusetts teachers' pledge of loyalty to the Constitution. He will also remain a literary editor of the New Masses, soon will have published a Modern Age book called I Like America...
Last week the Guild's most persistent critic and its largest champion met head-on in public debate in Manhattan. Before a hostile crowd of 700, mostly Manhattan Guildsmen, up stood Brooklyn-born Arthur T. Robb, editor of Editor & Publisher, conservative journal of the trade. His opponent: mountainous Columnist Heywood Broun, national Guild president. The clash was advertised as the press debate of the year, but the forensics fizzled, for Mr. Robb spoke from a fact-jammed cranium, while Mr. Broun replied from an overstuffed heart...
...Board of Trade, and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, gave cash to keep The Beacon burning. Getting such hard-hitting liberals as Harold L. Ickes and Robert Marion La Follette to write for him, Factotum Harris soon found himself free to do an editor's job. His most constant local target was Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash machine. Editor Harris labeled Mayor Kelly "a Charley McCarthy'' who has "not yet denounced American Motherhood. Aside from that, he hasn't missed a pitch...
Last week, when the Kelly-Nash machine was upset by Governor Henry Homer in the Illinois primaries (sec p. 13), Editor Harris might have felt some justifiable pride in having helped. But he was too full of worries. There was not enough money in The Beacon's till to pay for printing the first anniversary issue, now a fortnight overdue. Not ready to admit he was licked. Sydney Harris last week broadcast a final appeal for help...