Editing Henry Luce (section)

==Career==
Nightly discussions of the concept of a news magazine led Luce and Hadden, both age 23, to quit their jobs in 1922. Later that same year, they partnered with [[Robert Livingston Johnson]] and another Yale classmate to form [[Time Inc.]]<ref name="Emerald1962">{{cite magazine|last=Warburton|first=Albert|date=Winter 1962|volume=48|number=4|magazine=The Emerald of Sigma Pi|title=Robert L. Johnson Hall Dedicated at Temple University|pages=111|url=http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/1962/SP_Emerald_VOL_48_NO_4_WINTER_1962.pdf|access-date=October 13, 2016|archive-date=September 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915082411/http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/1962/SP_Emerald_VOL_48_NO_4_WINTER_1962.pdf|url-status=usurped}}</ref>

Luce, supported by editor-in-chief [[T. S. Matthews]], appointed [[Whittaker Chambers]] as acting Foreign News editor in 1944, despite the feuds that Chambers had with reporters in the field.<ref>Brinkley, ''The Publisher: Henry Luce and his American Century'' (2010) pp. 322–93</ref>

Luce, who remained editor-in-chief of all his publications until 1964, maintained a position as an influential member of the [[History of the United States Republican Party|Republican Party]].<ref name=Time-Obit-1967-03-10>[https://archive.today/20130105003801/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,836722,00.html "Henry R. Luce: End of a Pilgrimage"].  ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''.  March 10, 1967</ref> An instrumental figure behind the so-called "[[China Lobby]]", he played a large role in steering American foreign policy and popular sentiment in favor of [[Kuomintang]] leader [[Chiang Kai-shek]] and his wife, [[Soong Mei-ling]], in their war against the Japanese. (The Chiangs appeared in the cover of ''Time'' eleven times between 1927 and 1955.)<ref name="Time Magizine search">{{cite magazine | url=http://search.time.com/results.html?N=46&Ntt=Chiang | title=Time magazine historical search | magazine=Time | access-date=19 June 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120630081514/http://search.time.com/results.html?N=46&Ntt=Chiang | archive-date=30 June 2012 }}</ref>

Luce authored an editorial for ''Life'' in 1941, titled "[[The American Century]]", in which he defined the role of U.S. foreign policy for the remainder of the 20th century.<ref name=Time-Obit-1967-03-10 />