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."

In 1933, Lawrence founded a weekly newspaper called United States News a weekly newspaper devoted to the details of government for an audience of community leaders, business people and politicians.^[1] In 1948, United States News merged with Lawrence's weekly magazine, World Report to form the news magazine U.S. News & World Report. At the time of Lawrence's death, the magazine had a circulation of 2 million.