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Best New Yorker Articles of 1932

Explore 48 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1932 issues.

48 picks · 48 issues · Top author: Alva Johnston (13)

Most featured section: Profiles

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Case Report 7007
Chester T. Crowell · A Reporter at Large · January 2

Composite piece about how two federal agents raided a speakeasy, or at least considered it one and carried out the raid with a sledge hammer and broadaxe. …

No More Lawyers
Alva Johnston · Profiles · January 9

Profile of George W. Olvany, once Tammany leader and who resigned suddenly on March. 15, 1929. He had just met with disfavor from his party after writing …

The French Lily
Janet Flanner · Profiles · January 16
Compleat Angler
Joel Sayre · Profiles · January 23

Profile of James Joy Johnston, boxing promoter who was appointed as assistant to the president of the Madison Square Garden, William F. Carey and its …

St. George of Manhattan
Milton MacKaye · Profiles · January 30

Profile of William Travers Jerome who along with Roosevelt and Bryan in 1906 was one of the three best known men in America. Now, twenty-five years later, …

Midwinter Madness
E. B. White · A Reporter at Large · February 20

Tells of the Olympics that are being held at the Lake Placid Club which was originally started by Melville Dewey as a health resort. Here amidst the …

Banker, Old Style
Geoffrey T. Hellman · Profiles · February 27

Profile of James Speyer, banker and president of the Speyer & Company. Tells of his career as financial head, his marriage to Ellin Prince, and his various…

The Pullman Theseus
Joel Sayre · Profiles · March 5

Profile of Jim Londos, Greek wrestler and world champion. On night of November 17, 1931, Londos threw Garibaldi in forty-six minutes and forty seconds. The…

Underground--II
Eric Hodgins · A Reporter at Large · March 12

REPORTER about the Interborough Rapid Transit Company subway which is controlled from the three-story stucco building at 147th St. and 7th Ave. Mr. …

Exercise
Russell Lord · A Reporter at Large · March 19

Tells about the private gymnasium of Isadore L. Winters in a Park Avenue Hotel. He used to be a champion wrestler and coach at Yale. He is known for …

No Hero
Henry F. Pringle · Profiles · March 26

Profile of Lieut-Commander Rosendahl(Charles E.) who has had more hours aboard lighter-than-air craft to his credit than any other American flier and who …

Groton, Harvard, Wall Street
Matthew Josephson · Profiles · April 2
Profile Mr. Jaeckel and a Few Hides
S. N. Behrman · Profiles · April 9

Profile of Richard Jaeckel, the furrier and some facts about the fur business in New York for the past quarter of a century. Like John Jacob Astor, Richard…

Alma Mater's Eggs
E. B. White · A Reporter at Large · April 16

Visit to the scene of the student's strike at Columbia University. It was the result of the recent expulson of the editor of their college publication,…

Soul Surgeon
Alva Johnston · Profiles · April 23

Tells of the houseparty evangelist, Reverend Frank Buchman who started his soul-saving career at Cambridge where he was known as the Old Moral Uplift. He …

Business is Business
Henry F. Pringle · Profiles · April 30

Tells of Nicholas M. Scheneck, and his brother Joe and the story of their careers, business interests, etc. Came from a poor family of seven, and started …

The Man With the Squeegee.
Russel Crouse · Profiles · May 7

Profile of Stanley Norris, nee Stanislaus Naruszewicz who is an expert window-cleaner. He is a fatalist and a Pole and despite the fact that an average of …

Four Miles Over Timber,
E. B. White · A Reporter at Large · May 14

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the takeoff of the Maryland Hunt Cup running (the thirty-ninth), and description of the race as viewed by an onlooker. …

Jolly Bears-II
Matthew Josephson · Profiles · May 21

Profile of Bernard E. Smith, the financier and the one of the best-known bears of Wall Street. Describes some of his important speculative manouevers. He …

Out of the Past
Milton MacKaye · Profiles · May 28
Let Freedom Ring-I
Alva Johnston · Profiles · June 4

Profile of the criminal lawyer, Samuel S. Leibowitz who out of 78 men charged with murder in the first degree; his record is 77 acquittals; one …

Let Freedom Ring-II
Alva Johnston · Profiles · June 11

Profile of Samuel Liebowitz, crimanal lawyer. Tells some more about his courtroom methods. They are broad and direct. He laughs and the jury laughs with …

Comet
Janet Flanner · Profiles · June 18

Profile of Elsa Schiaparelli, whose entry into dressmaking was an accident. It came when after a five year trial of American life, she was still testing …

On the Square
Milton MacKaye · Profiles · June 25

Tells of the biggest retailing department store, Klein's on Union Square and some interesting facts about it and the man that is its owner, S. Klein. …

“A Harvest of Inventions”
Gilbert Seldes · Profiles · July 2

Tells of John Hays Hammond, Jr., an inventor who had done considerable work in the field of radio, and developed many instruments that deal with remote …

So What?
Chester T. Crowell · A Reporter at Large · July 9

Composite profile of a man who has lost his restaurant on account of the Volstead Act. Recently, enforcement crashed down on him like a ton of bricks, …

Boss Hague, The Bandwagon and Beer
Alva Johnston · A Reporter at Large · July 16

Describes the effect brought about by Frank Hague, the Democratic boss and Mayor of Jersey City who turned the Democratic convention upside down. He ruined…

Vanishing American
Joel Sayre · Profiles · July 23

PROFILE of Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Beard is the author of "The American Boy's Handy Book"; "How To Camp Without …

Reunion in Paris
Alexander Woollcott · Shouts & Murmurs · July 30

An uncommon coincidence restores order to the universe in this Shouts & Murmurs story from 1932.

Grand Sachem
Milton MacKaye · Profiles · August 6

Tells of Dr. Thomas Darlington who has been six years the Commissioner of Health in New York. Describes his life which has been one of exuberance and …

KNICKERBOCKER VILLAGE-II
Alva Johnston · A Reporter at Large · August 13

REPORTER AT LARGE. Some more details on how the Knickerbocker Village was bought up by Fred F. French in dummy companies. Despite the fact that he was in …

Reformed Spellbinder
Alva Johnston · Profiles · August 20

Profile of Martin W. Little, the spellbinder and oratorical lawyer who used all his persuasive eloquent powers in convincing the jury that his client is …

The Culture Business-I
Milton MacKaye · Profiles · August 27

Profile of James B. Pond who is the man behind the Pond Bureau, the boss impresario of the lecture racket, and the only candidates for greatness he …

The Culture Business-II
Milton MacKaye · Profiles · September 3

Tells more about James B. Pond, the platform impresario who uses showmanship to make lecturing pay. The two men whom he was never able to lure on to the …

Conciliation Court
Zelda F. Popkin · A Reporter at Large · September 10

Visit to the Jewish Conciliation Court which is located at 264 Madison Street where the various cases of the Hebrew rase are arbitrated and settled without…

The Red House
Matthew Josephson · A Reporter at Large · September 17

Visit to the headquarters of the Communist Party of America located at 48-50 East Thirteenth Street, and some interesting facts about the party, the …

Blushes and Tears
James Thurber · A Reporter at Large · September 24

Tells about the photograph collection of old theatrical pictures that Albert Davis has at 936 East 12th Street, Flatbush, Brooklyn. Thousands of other …

Fifty Years of Wall Street
Matthew Josephson · Profiles · October 1

Tells of Harry Content, one of Wall Street's leading magicians'. He is one of the smoothest and fastest-working jugglers of the Street. Gives same …

The Atheist Pope
Alva Johnston · Profiles · October 8

Tells of Joseph Lewis, who has made a business of Atheism making it pay. His unholiness, as his admirers call him, has a thriving mail-order business in …

Disarmament City
Frances Warfield · A Reporter at Large · October 15

Visit to Geneva, the city where the second Disarmament conference is being held. Delegates do not go there to enjoy themselves, but to confer and to disarm…

The New Crusade
Milton MacKaye · Profiles · October 22
THE EDUCATION OF A PRINCE--I
Alva Johnston · Profiles · October 29

PROFILE of Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, who was deported from America this May and placed in jail at Grasse, France, for swindling …

THE EDUCATION OF A PRINCE--II
Alva Johnston · Profiles · November 5

PROFILE of Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, who was deported from America this May and placed in jail at Grasse, France, for swindling …

THE EDUCATION OF A PRINCE--V
Alva Johnston · Profiles · November 26

PROFILE of Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, who was deported from America this May and placed in jail at Grasse, France, for swindling …

Beer
Alva Johnston · A Reporter at Large · December 3

REPORTER AT LARGE about some of the issues that the country will have to face if the Eighteenth Amendment is repealed. There is the conflict of interest …

Shrdlu etaion
Wolcott Gibbs · Fiction · December 10

Satire on a man who spends his whole life looking for errors in other people's work. He makes a career of it. He died at the height of his career after…

Czar of Song-I
Alva Johnston · Profiles · December 17

Profile of Gene Buck, the president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He controls and corners the supply of popular and jazz …

The Depression in Chatam Square
Albert Parry · A Reporter at Large · December 24

Tells about the tattooing business in Chatham Square which has been very bad lately on account of the depression, and some of the men who practise the art.…

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