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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dodge Corp. Arizona mining interests. The Tucson Citizen is owned and managed by onetime (1909-13) Postmaster-General Frank Harris Hitchcock. Last year Publisher Hitchcock abruptly discontinued the Citizen's editorial page, recently resigned as Republican National Committeeman for Arizona. At Bisbee, Phelps Dodge copper mining centre, the Review and the Evening Ore are both controlled by Cochise Publishing Co., a Phelps Dodge subsidiary. At nearby Douglas-named for Dr. James Douglas, who discovered the Copper Queen mine and whose grandson is President Roosevelt's Budget Director Lewis Douglas-the Daily Dispatch is independent but fully as conservative...
...Cornhill Magazine had its day, and the Yellow Book, and the Little Review; with tear in eye one will soon add the American Mercury to the list of extinguished balls of fire. The October issue contains only two contributions from Mr. Mencken; rumor bath it that he has withdrawn from its financial camorra, and the assumption is that a man's purse liea nearest his heart. Yet without even a Mencken editorial the magazine manages to decline gracefully. To the college student an article by one E. H. Orr on "The Impossibility of Education" is the piece do resistance...
...Floyd finished school he went to work in a candy factory, graduated (often by expulsion) to other jobs, till he gravitated into journalism. At 21 he was a reporter on the Chicago Evening Post, was soon assistant to brilliant young Francis Hackett on the Post's "Friday Literary Review" When Hackett left, Dell succeeded him. In 1913 he felt successful enough to seek his fortune in the wilds of Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He became Max Eastman's assistant editor on the Masses, was a member of the committee that started the bohemian revels in Webster Hall...
...that his bride will not bring him a dowry of debt. A Maine farmer and his wife, who distrust foreigners anyway, are made extremely nervous by the uproarious goings-on of the Swedes across the road, (This story, "Country Full of Swedes," fortnight ago was awarded the 1933 Yale Review prize...
Alice Hamilton, assistant professor in Industrial Medicine at the Medical School has just returned from Naziland. In "Hitler Speaks" she gives a good review of the leader's own book "Mein Kampf" which is to be published in this country soon. By illustration after illustration she shows how Hitler is shaping Germany to the mold of the political philosophy of his autobiography...