David Lawrence (publisher)

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David Lawrence (December 25, 1888 – February 11, 1973) was a conservative newspaperman and former student of Woodrow Wilson's at Princeton University. After Wilson's reelection as U.S. President in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson fired Irish-American staffmember Joe Tumulty in 1916 to placate anti-Catholic sentiment particularly from his wife and his advisor Colonel Edward M. House. Tumulty saw David Lawrence successfully intercede on his behalf to remain in Wilson's White House. During the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, David Lawrence criticised 'The New Deal' in his 1932 book 'Beyond the New Deal'. His prescient observation of economic activity led him to distinguish between free enterprise and corporatism, writing that "theoretically, corporations are creations of the state" - a profound insight into economic fascism that prefers to hide behind the rhetoric of free enterprise. Later in his life, Lawrence founded and edited a weekly newsmagazine U.S. News & World Report. At the time of his death, the magazine had a circulation of 2 million.