{"value"=>"<p>Milton Greenstein, editorial counsel to The New Yorker, also served as an intermediary between the editorial and business sides of the magazine; he later became Vice-President of the firm. Hawley Truax was the Treasurer of the magazine and later became Chairman of the board. Their files were merged in the late 1940s.</p> <p>Greenstein's and Truax's records document their handling of a variety of business and legal matters: their files contain contracts with authors and artists, such as fiction and art agreements with \"First Reading\" clauses that gave the magazine first right to reject or accept any work by that individual; accounts of payments (including royalties and \"drawing account\" payments given to writers with work in progress), salaries, cost-of-living adjustments, and staff benefits; income tax returns prepared for New Yorker staff and contributors; correspondence regarding author and artist rights, deceased contributors, reprints and permissions, legal matters, such as libel suits and trademark and copyright disputes, and \"Reader's Complaints\"; and reports on advertising, circulation, production, and printing.</p>"}