Word: reformist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candid memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan, for whose famed Manhattan salon he once served as chief talent scout. He appeared again in the autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, under whom he got his start as a journalist specializing in Bowery bums, thugs, anarchists and trends. His late brother Norman, famed reformist editor, and Mary Heaton Vorse are among a half dozen others who included him in their autobiographies. Last week he gave his own version of his story...
...Haven girl, got his first job as editor of the New Haven Morning News. From there he went to the New York Evening Post, then joined the staff of McClure's (with Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell) at the height of its brilliance. After eight years of reformist muckraking. Hendrick's journalistic training was nicely balanced by 14 on the late, colorless World's Work. For the last ten years, bespectacled, stately-domed Author Hendrick has devoted himself to writing books. Others: Life of Andrew Carnegie, The Lees of Virginia...
...York City (1918-25); of a heart attack; in Queens. A farm boy from upstate New York, he left home at 19, worked as a common laborer before he studied law. Boosted from a city magistrate's insignificance by Tammany and Hearst in their effort to defeat Reformist John Purroy Mitchel, he won the mayoralty election in 1917, fought with his party on transit policy. Finally repudiated by Tammany, which preferred James J. Walker's lighter touch, Hylan ran against Walker and lost in the primaries, was appointed by his successor a Children's Court Justice...
...possibilities of effecting social reform through newspaper editorial policy have led many enthusiastic and idealistic journalists to urge the recognition of journalism as a profession of great social value. But Dean Ackerman of the Columbia School of Journalism in characterizing journalism as an occupation of great reformist potentialities presents an entirely new view of the problem. A principal service of a journal in an economic world, the Dean declares, is in facilitating the economic processes of that world. The newspaper performs this service by bringing together buyer and seller through the advertisements in its columns...
...active disbeliever in capitalist economics, Steffens is skeptical of them; thinks not only that business controls government but that politicians are venal by profession. His journalism might be said to have been more revelatory than reformist. His (implicit) advice: find the facts, clear your soul of cant...