Background
Malin was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1903, the son of a banker.
Malin was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1903, the son of a banker.
He attended the University of Pennsylvania"s Wharton School, graduating as valedictorian in 1924.
He entered the family business at age ten, and was expected to eventually become president of the bank. However, Woodrow Wilson"s World War I speeches gave him a desire to travel and get a government job. From 1924 to 1929, Malin served as private secretary to International Young Men’s Christian Association director Sherwood Eddy.
While on his first trip abroad, he met Caroline Biddle.
In 1930, Malin joined the economics faculty at Swarthmore College, where he would remain for twenty years until taking the job with the American Civil Liberties Union. During World World War II, however, he worked for the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, headquartered in London. In September 1940, he was dispatched by President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt to issue visas to the Jewish refugees of the South.S. Quanza when it stopped in Norfolk, Virginia to refuel.
Malin had been an American Civil Liberties Union member since the Twenties, but had not thought of working for the organization until shortly before he was selected to succeed Baldwin. He served twelve years in that position.
Malin oversaw a tremendous increase in the American Civil Liberties Union"s membership, and established its present-day chapter structure, but faced criticism from those who said that the organization had not aggressively confronted Joseph McCarthy.
In 1962, Malin left the American Civil Liberties Union to become president of Robert College (now Boğaziçi University) in Istanbul. He died there on December 13, 1964.