Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social conscience. Two years ago, Banker Wertheim bought for his Civic Aid Foundation Oswald Garrison Villard's famed old pinko weekly, The Nation, which was editorially strong at 70 but financially feeble. Mr. Wertheim kept hands off The Nation's policy, which was shaped by Editor Freda Kirchwey and her colleagues, Joseph Wood Krutch and Max Lerner. Under the Foundation's patronage, The Nation treated itself to a new format, the cartoons of brilliant David Low. With pinko-liberalism rampant in the land, circulation began to soar...
Last week The Nation's difference with its backer was neatly resolved. With an all-time high of 43,000 readers, The Nation has become selfsupporting, so Banker Wertheim felt free to sell it to Editor Kirchwey for " a substantial cash consideration...
...MAGIC OF MONARCHY-Kingsley Martin-Knopf ($1.25). "What was really behind the abdication" of Edward VIII; a lucid, 125-page explanation tracing the last century's British opinion about the Monarchy, by the editor of the liberal New Statesman and Nation...
Distinguished by his editorship of "Dictionary of American Biography," Malone will receive national recognition of his career as historian, teacher, and editor. At the commencement exercises Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and President Harold Dodds of Princeton will be given the titles of Doctors of Laws...
According to President Hopkins the task completed by the editor was a "comprehensive collection of biographies," written "with authority, completeness, brightness, and brevity...