Word: smyth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mysteries of contemporary publishing has been a cadaverous onetime pulp writer named Joseph Hilton Smyth. Four years ago he suddenly emerged from Greenwich Village obscurity, bought the venerable magazines Living Age and North American Review. Then he bought into Current History. Before long he bought a good slice of the staid Saturday Review of Literature. He also founded a weekly newsletter called The Foreign Observer, a press service called the Negro News Syndicate...
Last week FBI solved the mystery. Publisher Smyth, arrested with two cronies, pleaded guilty to charges that he got $125,000 from the Japs in four years, paid by Manhattan's Japanese Vice Consul Shintaro Fukushima. The down payment on June 21, 1938, was $15,000. Thereupon Living Age promptly denounced the Open Door as a perfidious British invention, sugared Jap aggression, pooh-poohed the U.S. stakes in the Far East ("so small that they would not pay the Federal tax on cigarets smoked by the nation in ten months"). The Japs guaranteed Living Age's deficit...
...discovered Publisher Smyth's colleague, Canadian-born Walker Grey Matheson, 40, last week in Nelson Rockefeller's Office of Inter-American Affairs. He was writing short-wave broadcasts about the Far East for Latin America. Agent Matheson, who had gone to school in Hawaii, Peking, Shanghai, Rangoon, Tokyo, the Universities of Nevada, California and Mexico, knew the Japs well. In 1937, charged the FBI, they hired him to spy on the U.S. Communist Party. Boastful of his long friendship with Emperor Hirohito, he had taught philosophy at New York City's Queens College. As chief hack...
...CLARKE SMYTH...
...most challenging are the contributions of Father Smyth of the Society of the Catholic Commonwealth and of an anonymous senior who writes under the pseudonym of Clark Hamilton '43. After a long and somewhat tedious statement of early Christian dogma, Father Smyth concludes that Christianity is in essence a collectivist faith, that it must concern itself with the evils of this world, and that the only Christian solution of those ills is therefore a collectivist one. This article is more Leftist in tone than even the famed Malvern Conference, and demonstrates that the Church both at home and abroad...