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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION yy Fite NO. 7°7—30708 THIS pas onicinarep ar BUREAU . REPORT MADE AT DATE WHEN MADE PERIOD FOR REPORT MADE BY - °° WHICH MADE F - NEW YORK CITY 6/26/42 C/G yh 212 42 TITLE . “OFFICE FOR EMER SPECIAL INQUIRY: o oO ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND SYNopsisor Facts: ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND was born on September 26, 1892, - in New Albany, Indiana, His father was a bank president _ in New York City. He attended college at Princeton, N.J., being graduated with an A.B. degree in 1914. _ From 1914 to 1918 he was in the Editorial Department of the Publishers Weekly, New York City, at $150 per month, and from here entered the Army. Satisfactory. Following the War he became Advertising Manager in Charles Scribner's Sons, New York City, Publishers, at’ $4,000 per annun. In 1919 he went with B. W. Huebsch, New York City, Publishing House, at $3,000 per annum, resigning in . September, 1920 to enter seminary. Satisfactory. Entered Union Theological Seminary, New York City, in September, 1920, and was graduated with a B.D. degree in May, 19236 | Scholastic and attitude records were satisfactory. During © 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1933 he attended classes at the New School for Social Research, New York City, and attended Columbia University Graduate School, New York City, intermittently from 1921 to 1931, receiving a Ph.D. degree in Sociology in June, 1931. Employed by Common~ wealth Fund, New York City, from April, 1926 to July, 1927, as Research Supervisor, at $5,000 per. annum. — Satisfactory. Employed by Social Science Research... Council, New York City, from November, 1927 to July, | 1931, as Secretary, at $10,000 per annum. Satisfactory. Employed by Columbia University from July, 1931 to present as Professoy_of Sociology, at $9,000 per annum. Satis- facto eclare him to be of excellent |... . personal habits, exemplary character, liberal in TAAL TAA!