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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the magazine had begun to deteriorate editorially, 1920 found it at the peak (up to then) of its fortunes and with about one million circulation. (It had been bought from the Collier estate by Crowell Publishing Co.) Then came evil days?a business depression, a paper shortage, a printers' strike. For a few weeks the magazine actually failed to appear. By 1922 Collier's, definitely inferior in content, had tumbled to th place in general magazine advertising. In two years its revenues fell off more than 80%. Making matters worse, into the 5f field came Liberty...
...crowd, estimated at a million persons, were 20 who fell into the hold of a dismantled barge, had to be hoisted out by derrick...
Even convinced Republicans may find some truth in his strictures on democracy: "Fifty million Frenchmen. British, Germans or Americans can be wrong...
...serious thought. His objects to the assumption of most of our war memorials that we were right and our enemies were wrong; he questions incidentally the right of universities to spend vast sums in unnecessary building: and, most striking of all, he declares: "The very gesture of sinking a million dollars in a Protestant chapel when the validity of Protestantism (and Christianity in general as a solution for contemporary problems) is being questioned must, to be unprejudiced observer, appear at least extravagant...
...spending three quarters of a million on any memorial today I can only see union labor consuming the amount. F. W. C. Foster...