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He returned to Adelaide in 1929 to take up the position of Managing Editor with ''[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90050273 |title=Personal |newspaper=[[Chronicle |Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954)]] |location=Adelaide, SA |date=1 August 1929 |accessdate=28 December 2014 |page=46 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> which a consortium led by [[Keith Murdoch]] had just taken over. He was appointed to the board in 1931, became managing director from 1938 to 1961 and chairman from 1942 to 1967.<ref name=retirement/>
 
Dumas was, with Murdoch's blessing, pleased to be seen as a partisan editor. He supported [[Lionel Hill]] as the Labor Premier, and continued to support him Hill when in August 1931 he was sacked from the Labor Party and formed a minority government with the support of Liberals.