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16 picks · 1933–1963

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Our Invisible Poor
books · January 19, 1963

BOOKS review of Michael Harrington’s “The Other America.”

A Caste, a Culture, a Market—II
profiles · November 29, 1958

Dwight MacDonald on Eugene Gilbert, the advertising genius who made youth culture profitable.

FOUNDATION: NEXT WINTER OR BY PLANE
profiles · December 17, 1955

PROFILE of the Ford Foundation dealing with the Hutchins regime. Hutchins was a headace to the Foundation. The modern foundation official should be …

FOUNDATION: THE PHILANTHROPOIDS Part III
profiles · December 10, 1955

PROFILE of the Ford Foundation, headquarters at 477 Madison Avenue. The article deals with the Foundation's personnel, officers, disbursements of …

FOUNDATION: HOW TO SPEND HENRY'S MONEY II
profiles · December 3, 1955

PROFILE of the Ford Foundation. A grant was made by their Behavorial Sciences Program to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavorial Sciences, at Palo …

Part -I- FOUNDATION: THE FRENCH JUST DON'T BELIEVE IT.
profiles · November 26, 1955

PROFILE of the Ford Foundation tells about The Rockefeller Foundation's beginning & the unfriendly attitude toward it In 1915, a Commission on …

Action on West Fifty-Third Street.
profiles · December 19, 1953

PROFILE of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., director of Collections of the Museum of Modern Art. An excellent example of Barr's showmanship was the exploitation of…

ACTION ON WEST FIFTY-THIRD STREET.
profiles · December 12, 1953

PROFILE of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., director of collections of the Museum of Modern Art, comments on the Metropolitan Museum's small collection of modern …

CIT
profiles · August 22, 1953

PROFILE of George Hervey Hallett, Jr., executive secretary of the Citizens Union. The sort of thing the Union keeps an eye on was the 1952 Board of …

THE DEFENSE OF EVERYBODY
profiles · July 18, 1953

PROFILE of Roger Baldwin, who was director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1920 to 1950. The Union's most celebrated case in the twenties, &…

IN DEFENSE OF EVERYBODY
profiles · July 11, 1953

PROFILE of Roger Baldwin, founder of the Amer. Civil Liberties Union, Although a man of socialist leanings, he has never voted for his old friend Norman …

"THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD." Founder of the Catholic Worker.
profiles · October 11, 1952
THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD.
profiles · October 4, 1952

PROFILE of Dorothy Day, who with Peter Maurin, an itinerant preacher, described as "apostle on the bum," who advocated "a Utopian Christian communism," …

White Sales and Aristotle.
profiles · February 2, 1952

PROFILE of Richard Weil, Jr., president of R.H. Macy's N.Y. store. One of his closest friends is Mortimer J. Adle r, the metaphysician, whose "How To …

Army Man At Work-II
profiles · February 17, 1940

PROFILE of Colonel Brehon B. Somerwell, W.P.A. Administrator. Mr. Ridder, philanthropist, and publisher of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung went into office …

Neanderthal
profiles · June 3, 1933

Profile of Leonor F. Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. He is Harriman's private heir as a manipulator of railroad systems. …

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