- Active as a founder of the Screen Writers Guild, now the Writers Guild of America. Secretary-treasurer of that union for 18 years. In the 1960s, he promoted the development of the Guild's pension fund. Appropriately, he died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund hospital, which the Guild's fund (together with other motion picture industry unions) helped establish.
- Widow Susan: 1915, New York - 8 February 2002, Santa Monica, California.
- Contract writer at MGM, 1938 to 1957.
- Before working in the film business, he had an attorney's practice in New York.
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