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...Pacific board of directors. Mr. Harriman's sister, Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairlady of the NRA Consumers Advisory Board, once backed a friend, William Johnson, in an ambitious but unsuccessful Editors' Feature Service (newspaper syndicate), but she is no editorial genius. Neither, for popular purposes, is Raymond Moley, criminologist, economist and erstwhile chief of President Roosevelt's Brain Trust, whose resignation therefrom last fortnight was explained on the grounds that he was to serve the New Deal by editing a weekly magazine to be financed by the other three (TIME, Sept. 4). The practical brains...
...Roosevelt & friends have felt the need of a magazine through which the New Deal could be expounded and illustrated to the masses. Both Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt wrote for the gum-chewing Macfadden Press. After inauguration the Roosevelt secretariat was encouraged to talk by radio and write for publication. Professor Moley was most prolific, turning out a "State of the Nation" colyum for the McNaught syndicate, less readable but more helpful than Democrat Al Smith's monthly pieces in the New Outlook. In elaborating their plans last week, Backers Astor & Harriman did not say just what Editor Moley...
...Moley's resignation was the first major break in the President's Washington lineup. Vincent Astor, rich young Roosevelt friend, took Dr. Moley off the Administration's hands by opportunely announcing plans for a 5? political weekly (as yet unnamed) and making the outgoing Assistant Secretary of State its editor. Other sponsors of the magazine were Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, NRA Consumer Board chief, her brother William Averell Harriman, Union Pacific board chairman, and Virgil V. McNitt of McNaught Syndicate who was to be executive editor. The weekly will support and expound the New Deal...
...formalities of the Moley resignation were conducted in an Alphonse & Gaston atmosphere at Hyde Park. Wrote Dr. Moley to the President: "The regret that I shall otherwise experience at severing my official tie with your administration is absent on account of the fact that this new work permits me not only to further the ideals common to us both but to continue to enjoy friendly association with you. ... I pledge you my active and continued support of the ideals to which you have given such a hopeful and auspicious realization. ... I regard this present opportunity to edit a national weekly...
...Moley denied, and so did Secretary of State Hull, that the. resignation resulted from bad blood between them. But every one remembered how, in the opening days of the Administration, the Assistant Secretary, as the President's personal representative in the State Department, far outshone the Secretary in the headlines ; how Dr. Moley called at the White House morning, noon & night, was a member of the exclusive Roosevelt bedside Cabinet; how he, an economic nationalist, clashed with internationalist Secretary Hull before, during and after the World Economic Conference, to which Moley's visit as the President...