Marguerite Young (journalist)
She graduated from Louisiana State University, where she edited the humor magazine The Purple Pel, and was a member of the Chi Omega sorority.
[3][2][4] Young wrote for the Baton Rouge State-Times and New Orleans Item-Tribune before she was hired for Associated Press in November, 1928.
[1] In late 1928 or early 1929, just before President Herbert Hoover's inauguration of March 4, Young arrived in Washington, DC, with a letter of introduction from her editor at the New Orleans Item-Tribune.
[5][2] Her coverage included the Mixed Claims Commission (Germany and United States) and the U.S. Public Health Service.
Secretary Henry L. Stimson stood by the State Department's protocol that seated women with lesser honor than men in a manner contrary to official rank.
[1] [8][9][10] Investigative journalist Paul Y. Anderson, associated with The Nation magazine, recommended to Young that she leave AP to get a byline at a newspaper.
"[5] "In July 1932, I resigned from the Associated Press... went to work ... for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain's show-piece, The World Telegram as a star reporter with my by-line featured five days a week.
Her motivation to join the Daily Worker appears twice in a repeated, center-page headline, in bold: HITLER SEIZES PRUSSIA Editor Clarence Hathaway lured her over to the newspaper.
[2] She reported a visit of CPUSA secretary general Earl Browder, who used her office as a base before going to Capitol Hill for meetings.
[2][11] Young first considered resigning from the Daily Worker when Hathaway ran a piece of hers he had assigned, then published a retraction of it the next day.
She was a young and very intelligent Communist, and it was she who was my contact, not officially, because I was not seen with her, of course, but I saw her privately and socially and it was she who would point out people to me that she knew and thought would be interesting to me.
She noted the dismissal of Brain Trust member Rexford Tugwell and the rise of younger New Deal figures Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin W. Cohen.
She writes of Martha "his daughter, whom I'd met and liked, an attractive young woman, light yellow hair, large black velvet bow at the nape of her neck."
Hathaway and Browder felt that "I no longer fitted their strategy and tactics–just as they had in effect dumped William E. Dodd, U.S. ambassador to Germany and world-renowned historian!
[2] She also appeared in a 1934 publicity photo depicting "Some Writers and Editors of the New Masses" that included Josephine Herbst, Ella Winter, and Anna Rochester.
Judging by the dates of her aritlces for the magazine, the firing occurred in the summer of 1936, as her articles suddenly proliferate as of August 1936 and continue with some regularity into 1938.
The memoir of Hope Hale Davis recounts that, as of September 1937, a Soviet agent called "Young" began to visit her Washington, DC, apartment to files.
[2] In 1948, Bert Andrews, Washington bureau chief for the Herald-Tribune, interviewed Young about Alger Hiss when the case broke.
I saw how fast and skillfully he made his case, sending memos to the chair–a thoroughly self-possessed man with an authoritative demeanor–and he had plenty of ammunition.
[2]In sum, she stated: I tended to rely on Chambers' words because he put it on the table–in print–where thousands of readers could read it and examine it and take it apart, and it stood up.
When Alger Hiss later would be convicted of perjury, I would look back to that little man's face and figure and movements and think, if he did it, he did it deliberately, not by any slip of the tongue or accident.
She calls National Labor Relations Board chair Ellinore Herrick a friend, as well as long-time CPUSA official Robert Minor and his wife Lydia Gibson.
[5] Recent studies on Noel Field show Young was married to Seymour Waldman, who in the mid-1930s was a contributor to the New Masses.
Senator David A. Reed (Rep-PA) of a book to read: "'Why–the Communist Manifesto of 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
They stole the value of workingman's labor and called it profit, but it was in fact surplus value, hence the whole system was not just unfair but mildness and one day it would collapse of its own bloated with.
"[2] She was a signatory of a public statement on the Moscow Trials "together with such notorious Communists and Communist fellow travelers fellow travelers as Haakon M. Chevalier, Jack Conroy, Malcolm Cowley, Kyle Crichton, Lester Cole, Jerome Davis (sociologist), Muriel Draper, Guy Endore, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Jules Garfield, Robert Gessner, Michael Gold, William Gropper, Harrison George, Dashiell Hammett, Clarence Hathaway, Lillian Hellman, Langston Hughes, V. J. Jerome, H. S. Kraft, John Howard Lawson, Corliss Lamont, Melvin Levy, Albert Maltz, A.
In 2012, literature professor Alan M. Wald wrote "one cannot entirely rule out that this Marguerite Young is the same well-known Marguerite Young (1908–1994) who authored Miss Macintosh, My Darling (1965) and who also wrote on utopian socialism and Eugene V. Debs", but noted that all biographical material place the latter in Chicago and Indianapolis during the period the former was based in Washington D.C. and New York.
[39] In 2000, the error reappeared in American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present (Gale Group Inc., 2000)[40] and then appeared online in Encyclopedia.com.
