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...together three years ago to talk of organizing to protect their jobs, shorten hours, raise pay. Soon they heard that similar meetings were being held in Manhattan, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Result was American Newspaper Guild, founded in December 1933 with shaggy, drawling Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood Campbell Broun as its president. Though some of the members at first did not like to proclaim it as such, the new Guild was a labor union from the start. Last week in Manhattan's Hotel Astor, the third annual Guild convention enthusiastically admitted this fact when instructed delegates representing...
President Broun, great & good friend of John L. Lewis, thereupon lumbered up to say: "I readily agree that the labor map is changing, but I want to be with the map-makers." St. Louis' four votes and Lansing, Mich.'s one were the only ballots cast against President Broun's majority...
...Copeland Association, which gathers yearly for this occasion, represents a unique group in literary history. So far as is known, it forms the only alumni society ever dedicated to a living man. The members, all former pupils of Copey, include such men as Walter D. Edmonds, Walter Lippmam, Heywood Broun. Bernard DeVoto, Donald Moffat, and Oliver LaFarge...
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Recently I have been rereading those articles of Heywood Broun which are brought together in his book, "it seems to Me." It is easy enough to discern the man's talents and to see why it is that the sophisticated world "goes for him."In fact, I envy not a little his art of happy phrasing, dramatic power, conciseness, together with the whole bag of tricks which he has mastered. However, I think that all this brilliance and techniques make me dislike the more this man's writings for art in such a case makes palpable half-truths and even...