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Beginning at 8 p.m. in Rindge Tech Auditorium, Norman Thomas, former leader of the Socialist Party, Ted O. Thackrey, New York newspaper publisher, Mayo A. Shattuck '19, Boston estates and trusts lawyer, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, will discuss the position of the liberal in today's society and give their varying views as to his ideal makeup...
Thomas, "the perennial candidate for president," has run for office six times on the Socialist platform. Thackrey, new editor of the New York Compass, supported Henry Wallace's Progressive Party...
Norman Thomas, perennial Socialist candidate for president, and Ted O. Thackrey, editor of the New York Compass, will be among the speakers this Friday at Rindge Teach when the first Law School Forum of the year discusses "The Future of the American Liberal...
...Compass is to be saved, said Thackrey, it is up to the readers. He asked them to buy $300,000 in Compass stock at $10 a share, as a starter. As part of his sales talk, he gave out the first financial and circulation figures on the Compass' first-year operations. They gave a rare peek into the costs of starting metropolitan newspapers these days but they were hardly encouraging to would-be investors...
...paper was still losing "several thousand" dollars a week and current circulation of 50,000 was still some 15,000 below what Thackrey estimated the paper needed to break even. In the face of these dark figures, there was no rush to buy stock. Thackrey reported many inquiries, but weekend mail brought a slim $3,000 worth of orders...