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Best New Yorker Articles of 1930

Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1930 issues.

52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Morris Markey (9)

Most featured section: Profiles

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The Wizard--II
Alva Johnston · Profiles · January 4
The Wizard--III
Alva Johnston · Profiles · January 11
Ugly duckling
Helena Huntington Smith · Profiles · January 18

Personality sketch of Albert Stoessel, musical conductor. Conducts the New York Oratorio Society and the Bach Cantata Club; in summer has Chautauqua …

Helen Keller at Forty-nine
Robert M. Coates · Profiles · January 25

A Profile, from 1930: Keller was convinced that what she had done, others could do, Robert M. Coates writes—her struggle had been in combating the world’s refusal to regard her as a normal human being.

Feathered Warrior
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · February 1

Cock-fighting as a sport. Scene is a tornament, the first of the season, in which six contestants enter five birds each and pay five hundred, dollars for …

Words and music
Franklin P. Adams · Profiles · February 8
Prophet of Doom
Henry F. Pringle · Profiles · February 15

Profile sketch of Roger Babson who is known as a prophet of doom because he has predicted all the financial doomsday, and has done considerable reckoning. …

Pedagogue
Helena Huntington Smith · Profiles · February 22
K. O. Middlewight--I
Niven Busch, Jr. · Profiles · March 1

Personality and success story of a prizefighter whose real name is Stanislas Kalnins. His first manager thought K.O. Keenen would go over better due to …

K.O. Middlewight--II
Niven Busch, Jr. · Profiles · March 8
How the social center was fixed
Frank Sullivan · Fiction · March 15

The exact social center of New York was recently fixed at a point in the southeast corner of the back yard of the home of Mr. John Chandler Moore of 15 …

Painter in Town
Murdock Pemberton · The Talk of the Town · March 22

Personality of French artist. Studied to be a lawyer and then began to paint. His first picture was a study of law books. His early pictures were all …

REPORTER AT LARGE
James Thurber · A Reporter at Large · March 29

Visit to the Police College, eight-story building at the corner of Broome & Cleveland Streets where Grover Whalen is making college students out of cops. …

Nobless Oblige
Helena Huntington Smith · Profiles · April 5
Two-Eyed Connelly
Alexander Woollcott · Profiles · April 12
NEW YORK INTERIORS
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · April 19

Visit to auction sale at Park Avenue where books and manuscripts were to be sold to the highest bidder. The bidding on these small packages of bound & …

Up From Hell's Kitchen
Charles Robbins · Profiles · April 26
Perfume and Politics
Janet Flanner · Profiles · May 3

PROFILE of Francois Coty, the famous perfume manufacturer who shuns publicity. It is known that his real name is Cpoturno, and Coty is a nom de plume he …

Profile
Helena Huntington Smith · Profiles · May 10

Profile of Elinor Smith, who holds the women's altitude record and who, until a few weeks ago, held the women's solo endurance record, has never …

REPORTER AT LARGE The Crimson Menace
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · May 17

Intolerance politically against the Communists is not present in big business. The Amtorg Trading corporation, the Soviet importing concern which buys …

A little episode
James Thurber · Fiction · May 24

Tells how two doting parents take their self-willed child up to shake hands with the engineer, and when he gets there, pulls his hands behind his back. …

On the Up
Richard F. Warner · Profiles · May 31

Profile of Borough President of the Queens, George Upton Harvey. Facts about the office he holds, and some of his daily duties. Believes war is a good …

Crazy over Horses
Helena Huntington Smith · Profiles · June 7

Profile of John D. Hertz and his wife, who have racing stable of thoroughbreds. His two-year old Anita Peabody wo won the Belmont Park Futurity in 1927, …

Wet Hope
Henry F. Pringle · Profiles · June 14

Profile of Henry Hastings Curran, the President of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment. He has a ready wit and a wooden countenance which has…

The Commander
Virgilia Peterson Ross · Profiles · June 21

Profile of Evangeline Booth, Commander of the Salvation Army, and history of organization's founding. Was founded by her father, Old General William …

Our Own Lenin
Alva Johnston · Profiles · June 28

Profile of William Z. Foster, Red leader and propagandist who is now a prisoner at Hart Island. Has been representing the radical party of Moscow in …

They Were Eleven
Helena Huntington Smith · Profiles · July 5

Helena Huntington Smith profiles Margaret Sanger, a pioneering advocate for access to birth control.

Recalling O. Henry
Art Young · Profiles · July 12

PROFILE of O. Henry, the writer, whose birth name was really William Sydney Porter and who was born in the South. He lived in New York about nine years, …

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Slow Rise to American Fame
Alexander Woollcott · Profiles · July 19

Alexander Woollcott on the modern architect’s early work, including the earthquake-resistant Imperial Hotel, in Tokyo, and his home at Taliesin, in Wisconsin, and his belated rise to fame in America.

THE CLOCK
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · July 26

REPORTER AT LARGE. Visit to the Metropolitan Tower Clock in Madison Square which is located oh the 26th floor. The clock maker is Emil Hjarding who helped …

“WHAT IS A MERCHANT?”
Babette Deutsch · Profiles · August 2

PROFILE of August Heckscher, philanthropist, who told his father when he was a boy that he wanted to be a merchant. He was sent to Switzerland to be …

Nocturne
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · August 9

Piece on visits to the various speakeasies about town in the early morning. Description of some of the various characters that occupy the last one they …

Lady Chesterfield
Helena Huntington Smith · Profiles · August 16

Profile of Emily Post, authority on etiquette who says that etiquette was an accident in her life; needed money, and when asked to do an encyclopedia of …

England's Most Photographed Female
John R. Tunis · Profiles · August 23

Profile of Betty Nuthall, pretty English tennis player who is making great strides in the game. In 1929, she gave Miss Helen Will the closest match she has…

Good Morning, Judge
Milton MacKaye · Profiles · August 30

Profile of Joseph E. Corrigan, well-known judge who is the only magistrate who is in the Social Register. Started his career in 1903, when he entered …

D'artagnan of the courts
John R. Tunis · Profiles · September 6

Profile of Jean Borotra, one of the topnotch tennis players who has had many international triumphs on the courts. He has travelled all over the world, and…

Question Mark
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · September 13

Reporter-at-large piece on Coste Bellonte Welcome of the French trans-atlantic fliers who made the flight from east to west. Lack of enthusiasm by the …

How I got my judgeship for $7.93
Alva Johnston · Fiction · September 20

I can't help laughing when I read about colleague of mine paying from $12,000 to $200,00 for their places on the bench. I got my appointment …

Dilettante
Donald Thompson · Fiction · September 27

In more normal times, Montgomery would have been a collector. Not, of course, the sort of person who is concerned with such matters as leases, electricity …

Counsellor
T. H. Wenning · Fiction · October 4

Mr. Zweiger who tops the scales at just a shade under three hundred had been coming to Barney Mitchell's gymn three times a week for months. He never …

THE VANISHED JUDGE.
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · October 11

REPORTER AT LARGE about Judge Crater's disappearance and some of his mysterious movements before he disappeared. On the day he left, he went through …

The People's Servants-I
Richard F. Warner · A Reporter at Large · October 18

Facts about political campaigning. Tells the procedure of an ordinary campaign for election. Candidates who run for office are always confident that they …

Reporter-at-Large The Peoples's Servants-II
Richard F. Warner · A Reporter at Large · October 25

Long reportorial piece about political campaigning and some examples of it. Teddy Roosevelt, Jr. was one of the candidates for the governor of New York, …

It Pays to Preach
Richard F. Warner · Profiles · November 1
“Cosmos”--I
Alva Johnston · Profiles · November 8
“Cosmos”--II
Alva Johnston · Profiles · November 15
Robin Hood, 1930
Samuel Chotzinoff · Profiles · November 22

Profile of Dr. Flexner, who has done great deal to further education in the U.S. In 1910 wrote book “Medical Education” deploring it here and in …

TRAFFIC
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · November 29

REPORTER AT LARGE about traffic conditions in N. Y., and some suggested and applied remedies. Average of parked cars in lower Manhattan is about 40,000, …

The Jury
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · December 6

Typical procedure of a jury, how picked, sworn in, and the trying of a case. The petit jurors receive notices from the U.S. Gov't to serve in district …

Heavier Than Air
Eric Hodgins · Profiles · December 13

Eric Hodgins’s 1930 Profile of the engineer who, with his brother Wilbur, built the first successful airplane.

Comment
M. B. Levick · Comment · December 20

As a nation we fall in love with “the girl in the book and after we’re married, act surprised and alarmed when complications set in.”

Lessons of the Master
Geoffrey T. Hellman · The Talk of the Town · December 27

Personality of Gurdjieff, the philosopher who is now lecturing at Carnegie Hall where some of his disciples read a few chapters from the Master's book …

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