Word: collier
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...success. He studied literature at Wayne State University (B.A.) and at the University of Florence. But, as he traveled through Europe and Africa, he began to believe that his middle-class values "support the system under which blacks are degraded and oppressed." He worked briefly in New York for Collier's Encyclopedia, then took an editorial job with Ebony magazine...
...influence of the late Joseph Patterson, the News' irascible founder. Patterson hired Maury in 1926 out of Butte, Mont., where Maury had been mixing freelance writing with a law practice. Maury won a Pulitzer Prize for editorials in 1940. At the same time he was moonlighting, writing Collier's editorials that often took an opposite, liberal point of view. Maury's explanation: "An editorial writer is like a lawyer or a public relations man: his job is to make the best possible case for his client...