Corporate Profile for The Truth Seeker Co., dated Aug. 11, 1995.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine, CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company and many others. -0- Published date: Aug. 11, 1995 Company name: The Truth Seeker Co.
Address: P.O. Box 2832
San Diego, Calif. 92112
Telephone No.: 800/321-9054 Chief Executive Officer: Bonnie Lange Chief Financial Officer: Bonnie Lange Public Relations Contact: Marti Kranzberg Business number: 800/321-9054 Home number: 619/296-3434 Industry: Publishing Company description: The Truth Seeker magazine began as a tabloid newspaper on Sept. 1, 1873. The founders were D.M. Bennett and his wife Mary. For 53 years, the Truth Seeker provided a forum wherein leading thinkers of the day presented their concepts of self-reliance. People such as Thomas Edison, Clarence Darrow, Mark Twain, Robert G. Ingersoll Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899) was a Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. , Woolsey Teller, Marshall Gauvin, Joseph McCabe, H.L. Mencken, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Margaret Sanger wrote for or gave support to the Truth Seeker. Their ideas were published both in tabloid and book form. In 1926, Charles Smith became the fifth editor and for the next 38 years used the Truth Seeker to promote his particular brand of militant atheism atheism (ā`thē-ĭz'əm), denial of the existence of God or gods and of any supernatural existence, to be distinguished from agnosticism, which holds that the existence cannot be proved. . In 1964, James H. Johnson For other uses of "James Johnson", see James Johnson (disambiguation). James Henry Johnson (born 1874 — died November 15, 1921) was a British figure skater competitive during the early days of modern figure skating. moved the Truth Seeker Co. from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to San Diego. Johnson was a successful investor. He left the largest estate ever received by the Freethought movement when he died in 1988. Under the stewardship of Bonnie Lange, the Truth Seeker has again become a forum for the discussion of ideas. In addition to being available quarterly as a magazine, the Truth Seeker is published electronically on two computer bulletin boards: America Online (keyword: Capital) and CompuServe. The Truth Seeker focuses on matters concerning political and religious issues as well as intellectual liberation and civil liberties. If you are new to Freethought and seek an overview, we suggest the writings of Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Thomas Paine, Thomas, 1737–1809, Anglo-American political theorist and writer, b. Thetford, Norfolk, England. The son of a working-class Quaker, he became an excise officer and was dismissed from the service after leading (1772) agitation for higher salaries. Jefferson, Robert G. Ingersoll, Bertrand Russell and Mark Twain. They will open the doors to many more. CONTACT: The Truth Seeker Co. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion