Word: freda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chase, Paul Y. Anderson, Heywood Broun, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. By 1935 they had far outstripped Villard's radical leanings, and he sold The Nation. Maurice Wertheim, a Manhattan financier and philanthropist, owned it for a brief spell, then passed it on in 1937 to Freda Kirchwey...
Publisher Kirchwey was a young woman three years out of Barnard College when she joined The Nation in 1918. In 1922 she became managing editor, in 1932 edi tor. At 43 she is gracious, handsome, sincerely Leftist in sympathy. With a circulation around 40,000, Freda Kirchwey manages to make The Nation pay its own way on a Spartan budget. Approximately a fourth of its revenue comes from advertising. Editor Kirchwey believes that with 15,000 more subscribers, The Nation could get along without any advertisers...