In 1931 the "New Statesman" merged with the Liberal weekly "The Nation and Athenaeum" and changed its name to the "New Statesman and Nation", which it kept until 1964. The chairman of "The Nation and Athenaeum"s board was the economist John Maynard Keynes, who came to be an important influence on the newly merged paper, which started with a circulation of just under 13,000. It also absorbed "The Week-end Review" in 1934 (one element of which survives in the shape of the "New Statesman"s Weekly Competition, and the other the "This England" feature). The Competition feature, in which readers submitted jokes and often parodies and pastiches of the work of famous authors, became one of the most famous parts of the magazine. Most famously, Graham Greene won second prize in a challenge to parody his own work.