Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend and patron. Distinctly cold to the President's Tax Bill (TIME, March 23), increasingly chummy with those whom Franklin Roosevelt chooses to call "economic royalists," Dr. Moley has frequently in Vincent Astor's Today warned the New Deal to reef its sails. Last week Editor Moley used Dr. George Gallup's latest Institute of Public Opinion poll showing Governor Landon to have an electoral majority (TIME, July 20) as a peg on which to hang still another warning to Roosevelt, Farley & Co. Wrote...
Into the Manhattan offices of Review of Reviews last month stepped a short, dark-haired youngish man who introduced himself to Associate Editor David Page as Pledge Brown, a onetime newshawk on the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle. Producing a letter from Editor Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum thanking him for an article on the New Deal's Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska (TIME, July 1, 1935 et ante), Pledge Brown asked if he might not do a similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that...
Next morning, on rereading Brown's article, Editor Page decided "it was too good to be true." He telephoned the Forum, which reported that both The Literary Digest and the Philadelphia Public Ledger had recommended Brown's work. As a final check Editor Page insisted on comparing his article with the Forum's. They were almost identical...
...Editor Page was more amused than angry. The Forum, however, having paid $75 for the piece, which it had not yet printed, was boiling. When investigation showed that the yarn was highly inaccurate, had appeared in print week before in the Sunday Worker, Editor Leach bleated to the National Publishers Association. That organization's warning broadside uncovered the news that Brown had worked his swindle on two other magazines: Scribner's, for $125; North American Review, for $75. Neither had yet published the story. In each case Brown got his money quickly by saying he had to catch...
...Forum's Editor Leach, Review of Reviews' Editor Page and their confreres of Scribner's, the Sunday Worker and North American Review had been alert followers of U. S. Governmental doings, they would never have been taken in by Pledge Brown at all. Last May Alaska's Delegate to Congress Anthony Joseph Dimond filled more than four pages of the Congressional Record with an expose of Brown's career. After leaving Alaska, where he was arrested for stealing a woman's purse, this extraordinary opportunist, whose full name, according to Delegate Dimond, is Wilbur...