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...fitting crown to a career which to them long seemed bound in a different direction. Born in Manhattan, the only child of well-to-do Jewish parents, young Walter was privately schooled, taken regularly to Europe, sent to Harvard. There in a class (1910) that included John Reed, Heywood Broun, Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Lippmann worked so hard and well that he finished his course in three years, spent his fourth year as assistant to Philosopher George Santayana. William James thought him a bright boy. But it was a British social philosopher visiting at Harvard, Graham Wallas (author...
...Republic announces that Heywood Broun has joined its staff. . . . The major event of 1937 has been the growth of organized labor. Central to the interest of New Republic readers is the unionization of writers, office workers, professional people; spokesman and leader in this field -Heywood Broun...
Practically unknown to the people who read his daily column in 40 newspapers is the fact that on & off for 10 years Mr. Broun, whose heart is as big as his stomach, has been contributing (almost literally) a weekly article to the Nation. First news that Editor Kirchwey had of his shift was when the New Republic sent in copy for an exchange advertisement in the Nation announcing the acquisition of Mr. Broun. However, Editor Kirchwey (who agreed to the advertising swap) had long been aware that the Newspaper Guild's unpressed president had not been happy...
Said the Nation's good-natured epitaph last week: "We liked Mr. Broun and his page, and we claimed for ourselves and our other regular contributors only the right we unquestionably gave to him-free expression of opinion. The irony of Mr. Broun's disapproval was that he and we saw eye to eye on the court proposal-as well as on most other major issues; we differed from him only in believing that it merited debate and that the opposition had a right to be heard. . . . We wish him well but we shall watch his future progress...
Commonwealth has as yet given no John Reed, nor even a Heywood Broun, to the Cause, and in recent years its internal troubles have griped it more than the occasional forays of its students and teachers into areas of labor strife have irritated capitalists. Five years ago two-thirds of Commonwealth's student body went on strike, presumably because the institution's brand of radicalism was not radical enough, and several years later its young Director Lucien Koch resigned to take a job with the NRA as assistant economic analyst in the consumers' division. He was succeeded...