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...entertained by Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Editor of Foreign Affairs, at luncheon. The other guests included: Paul D. Cravath, John W. Davis, Herman Har-jes, Otto H. Kahn, Thomas W. Lament, Russell C. Leffingwell, James H. Perkins, Seward Prosser, Benjamin Strong, Paul M. Warburg, Walter Lippmann, Julian Mason, Frank A. Munsey, Rollo Ogden, Frank L. Polk...
...until last week did the Knox trustees find a man to fill the shoes of Dr. McConaughy. When they did he turned out to bo Albert Britt of Manhattan, for 14 years editor of Outing, for the past year and a half an editorial standby of Publisher Frank A. Munsey. Thus it came to pass that there was another editor-president.* President-elect Britt's qualifications were enumerated: his age, 52; his Illinoisian background-born in Utah, Ill., schooled in Galesburg and at Knox itself; his wide experience and acquaintance in business and literary circles; his "unusual sense...
From Earl Grey, British statesman, a former patient of Dr. Wilmer's, a check; from J. P. Morgan, $100,000; from George F. Baker and George F. Baker Jr., $100,000; from Frank Munsey, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Julius Rosenwald, Joseph E. Widener, Felix M. Warburg, Samuel Sachs, Benjamin Stern, Mrs. Henry R. Rea, James Speyer and other contributors, came generous gifts...
...Chicago Tribune . . . boasts that it is 'a commercial institution.' . . . Take that newspaper Herod, Mr. Frank A. Munsey. He regards his newspapers little differently, except as to size, from the merchandise that passes across the counters of his successful chain of grocery stores. In such an atmosphere. . . . the profession of journalism reaches the vanishing point...
...scrupulously fair" and "rigidly nonpartisan" and "on the other hand, certain hidebound Republican organs give to many of their dispatches a heavy Coolidge flavor and lose no chance to place the Davis candidacy in a bad light." This is hyperbole. These "hidebound Republican organs" refer chiefly to Frank Munsey's Sun, Ogden Reid's Pier Herald-Tribune, and Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Post. In the degree of news partisanship shown there is probably little difference between these three papers and the "rigidly nonpartisan" World. Incidentally, the most virulently partisan paper in the city, although...