{"value"=>"<p>Subseries C contains newspaper columns written by Thomas between 1934 and 1967. Each file within the subseries is in chronological order.</p> <p>Thomas' weekly column, \"Timely Topics\", ran in the New Leader and in a variety of socialist, labor, and college newspapers. In 1935 Thomas broke with the Old Guard-controlled New Leader and began sending his columns to the new Party paper, the Socialist Call. File IV; C: 1 includes typed copies of some of these \"Timely Topics\" columns. Most of them date from 1934, with a few from 1935 and 1936.</p> <p>File IV: C: 2 contains columns Thomas wrote for the Socialist Call. The file begins in June 1936 with Thomas' \"At the Front\" series and includes his 1937 stories from Europe. There are scattered columns from 1938-1942 and a few more from 1947-1960. Many undated columns can be found at the end of the file.</p> <p>File IV: C: 3 contains columns Thomas wrote between 1960 and 1965 for New America, which succeeded the Call as the Party's official newspaper. Most of the columns in this incomplete file date from 1961 and 1962.</p> <p>In 1948 Thomas began working for the Denver Post. During that year he became the first presidential candidate ever to cover both the Democratic and Republican national conventions for a major newspaper. The assignment worked out so well that the Post gave him a semi-weekly editorial column. He submitted the first samples in 1948, and the column was carried twice weekly in 1949.</p> <p>It appeared in other western newspapers as well, including the Oakland Tribune, Portland Oregonian, Seattle Times, Boise Statesman, Salt Lake City Tribune - and the Los Angeles Mirror. In 1952 the Mirror Enterprises Syndicate picked up the column and sold it nationally and abroad. But by February of 1958 it had lost popularity, and so was dropped by the Syndicate. The Denver Post continued to carry the column until Thomas resigned due to illness in 1967.</p> <p>File IV: C: 4 consists of a nearly complete run of Thomas' Denver Post/ Mirror Syndicate columns. The file is incomplete for 1948 to 1951 and contains many columns dated only by year. For the period 1952-1967 there is a typescript of almost every column he wrote. The file also contains columns that were never published.</p>"}