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Some of the most notable Leftist writers of the day wrote for Villard: Norman Thomas, Stuart Chase, Paul Y. Anderson, Heywood Broun, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. By 1935 they had far outstripped Villard's radical leanings, and he sold The Nation. Maurice Wertheim, a Manhattan financier and philanthropist, owned it for a brief spell, then passed it on in 1937 to Freda Kirchwey...
...three points, a pair of stockings six points. Knitting yarn and even thread are so drastically rationed in the Reich that few German women can make clothes for their relatives as Christmas presents. Toy stores were practically sold out weeks ago, and last week in Berlin's famed Wertheim's not a single new soldier or cannon was available and clerks were having to sell old-fashioned hobbyhorses...
...Atop Wertheim's department store in Berlin a brand-new Swastika flag flew triumphantly. It was a signal that this Jewish firm was now completely "Aryan." The firm's top men, Jew Georg Wertheim. Jew Fritz Sternberg, had been removed on Government orders...
...record his disagreement with this stand, Banker Wertheim took a page and a half in the magazine. Wrote he: "For the purpose of immediate progressive legislation we are asked to sacrifice the great democratic principle that fundamental changes in our system of government shall result only from the decision of the people. . . . Does The Nation not know that it is clear beyond question, that the people have not passed on this subject...
Last week The Nation's difference with its backer was neatly resolved. With an all-time high of 43,000 readers, The Nation has become selfsupporting, so Banker Wertheim felt free to sell it to Editor Kirchwey for " a substantial cash consideration...