14-499: The Dial Press is a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh . The Dial Press shared a building with The Dial and Scofield Thayer worked with both. The first imprint was issued in 1924. Authors included Elizabeth Bowen , W. R. Burnett and Glenway Wescott , Frank Yerby , James Baldwin , Roy Campbell , Susan Berman , Herbert Gold , Thomas Berger , Vance Bourjaily , Judith Rossner , and Norman Mailer . In 1963, Dell Publishing Company acquired 60 percent of
28-569: A book for children. His wife died while they were in Athens. He left Athens on October 11, 1947. President Truman named MacVeagh as ambassador to Portugal on April 8, 1948. While in Lisbon , he was instrumental in bringing Portugal into NATO . He remained at the post in Lisbon until February 26, 1952. In 1952, President Truman called upon MacVeagh to serve as ambassador to Spain . He served for
42-629: A year in Madrid . He retired in 1953 as an envoy in Madrid after having conducted successful negotiations for military and economic agreements between the United States and Spain. In May 1955, MacVeagh remarried Mrs. Virginia Ferrante Coats, daughter of Marchese and Marchesa Ferrante di Ruffano of Naples , Italy. MacVeagh died on January 15, 1972, at a nursing home in Adelphi, Maryland , at
56-715: The Dial Press . In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed MacVeagh to be the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece . Following his presentation of his credentials , he gave a speech in classical Greek. He remained at the post in Athens until June 5, 1941, several months after the German Army overran Greece. In 1940, at the beginning of World War II , British troops had invaded and occupied Iceland in fear that Germany would take
70-647: The Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Union of South Africa . He served in Pretoria from May 21, 1942, until November 21, 1943, successfully coordinating the American wartime agencies there. On November 12, 1943, President Roosevelt again called on MacVeagh's experience in sensitive foreign relations. The President sent him to Cairo to act as the ambassador to the governments-in-exile of Greece and Yugoslavia who had fled their countries. After
84-538: The Sorbonne in 1913–14. He was fluent in German, French, Spanish, Latin , and Classical Greek . On August 17, 1917, MacVeagh married Margaret Charlton Lewis, the daughter of a distinguished linguist. She also was a serious student of classical languages. Their daughter, Margaret Ewen MacVeagh, accompanied her parents on various tours of duty around the world. Mrs. MacVeagh died on September 9, 1947. MacVeagh served in
98-818: The U.S. Army during the Great War , attaining the rank of Major. He was a member of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe. He served in the Artois , St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne campaigns and was cited by General of the Armies John J. Pershing in 1919 for "exceptionally meritorious services." After World War I, he became a director of Henry Holt and Company , a publishing firm in New York City. In 1923 he left Henry Holt to found
112-565: The Dial Press stock but the Press remained an independent subsidiary. It was jointly owned by Richard Baron (1923–2021) and Dell Publishing; E. L. Doctorow was editor-in-chief. In 1969 the Dial Press became wholly owned by Dell Publishing Company. In 1976 Doubleday bought Dell Publishing and the children's division of Dial Press (Dial Books for Young Readers) was sold to E. P. Dutton . The children's division of Dial Press published books under
126-697: The Pied Piper imprint. Dutton was bought by New American Library , which in turn became a part of the Penguin Group , a division of Pearson PLC . When the Penguin Group obtained the rights to children's books published by the Dial Press, some were published in paperback under the imprint Puffin Pied Piper (because Puffin has been the longtime children's imprint for the Penguin Group). Doubleday dissolved Dial Press in 1985. The adult imprint
140-704: The U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet Union 's sphere of influence . MacVeagh pressed the post-war Greek Government to pursue a democratic policy. While he was in Greece, MacVeagh conducted excavations beneath the Acropolis and made archeological contributions to the National Archaeological Museum of Athens . With his first wife, Margaret, he wrote Greek Journey ,
154-545: The island first. In July 1941, the governments of Iceland and the US had agreed that Iceland's defense would be the responsibility of the United States. On August 8, 1941, President Roosevelt appointed MacVeagh as the first U.S. ambassador to Iceland to manage the sensitive relations between the U.S. and Iceland. He remained in Reykjavík until June 27, 1942. President Roosevelt appointed him to another ambassadorship, this time as
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#1732780472826168-645: The liberation of Greece, MacVeagh transferred the embassy back to Athens on October 27, 1944. The office of the Embassy at Cairo was closed, November 8, 1944. In 1947, he gave secret testimony to the Congress on the danger of Soviet-supported extreme leftist movements in the Balkans. This testimony was considered an important factor in formulating what became known as the Truman Doctrine , which stated that
182-706: Was a United States diplomat, archaeologist , soldier and publisher , he was the founder of Dial Press . He served a long career as the United States ambassador to several countries during difficult times. The MacVeagh family has several noted names in the history of the United States: Lincoln MacVeagh was born October 1, 1890, in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island , the son of Charles MacVeagh and Fanny Davenport Rogers MacVeagh. MacVeagh graduated from Groton School in 1909 and Harvard magna cum laude in 1913. He studied languages at
196-616: Was revived by Carole Baron, the publisher of Dell, at the time part of Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, under the leadership of Susan Kamil . It went on to gain awards and bestsellers. It was bought when BDD was sold to Random House . Penguin and Random House merged in 2013, forming Penguin Random House , with the main division part of Random House and the Young Readers division part of Penguin. Lincoln MacVeagh Lincoln MacVeagh (October 1, 1890 – January 15, 1972)
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