Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mark Sullivan, now famed as a political pundit, is the Jeremiah of the (J. S. Press. Thrice weekly in the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune and 92 other newspapers, and on Sunday in the Herald Tribune and 72 others, he croaks fearfully against the New Deal. He is an able analyst and expositor, well grounded in orthodox economics, a diligent, honest newsgatherer. But not even his great & good friend Herbert Hoover outdoes him in bemoaning the evil days on which the land has fallen, in prophesying worse days to come unless citizens return to the tried & true ways...
Whether they applaud or snort at his political outpourings, most U. S. citizens were grateful to Mark Sullivan last week for a tremendous twelve-year job of historical research and reminiscence which he had just brought to completion. In the six fat volumes and 3,740 pages of Our Times, of which Volume VI ("The Twenties") was published last week,* Author Sullivan has presented a superb newsreel of the U. S. from 1900 to 1925-its heroes, its villains, its ideas, its sensations, its fun, fads & fancies. "The purpose of this narrative," wrote he in the first sentence of Volume...
...full college generation older than his classmates, ambitious Mark Sullivan stuck close to his books, lost no time on athletics, glee clubs, social life. Earning an A. B. in 1900, he stayed on for three years of law, meantime writing special articles for the Boston Transcript to pad out his dwindling $5,500. After a brief and briefless stab at the law in Manhattan, his Transcript record got him a job with Edward Bok for a spirited, 18-month campaign against quack patent medicines in the Ladies' Home Journal. In 1905 came two milestones in Mark Sullivan...
President's Friend. For Collier's, where he succeeded Norman Hapgood as editor in 1912, Journalist Sullivan journeyed often to Washington, wrote a department called "Comment on Congress." For Teddy Roosevelt, of whom he became friend & adviser as well as worshiper, the young journalist hurled his pen into the Progressive fight. He crusaded for Pure Food and for Conservation. He lambasted "Standpattism" and "Cannonism." He fought for low tariffs and direct primaries. In those zestful days young Mark Sullivan was indeed, as old Mark Sullivan has described him in Our Times, "a fierce young eagle of the press...
...Mark Sullivan settled permanently in Washington as a political correspondent, first for the Democratic, liberal New York Evening Post, after 1924 for the Herald Tribune. Also in 1919 he lost his leader. With the death of Roosevelt I, the crusading fervor went out of the Sullivan dispatches. His reports on the Harding and Coolidge Administrations were conscientious, uncritical, uninspired. Meantime Mr. & Mrs. Sullivan had become fast friends of another poor boy who had made good. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, and his wife. Many a Sunday evening the Sullivans walked around the corner from their Wyoming Avenue home...