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...Author John Dos Passes, stern commentator on the American Scene, ingenuously delighted with his first National Convention which he, too, was to report for the New Republic at 2¢ a word. Publisher Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum looked on austerely from a private box. Scripps-Howard Colyumist Heywood Broun settled his flaccid paunch behind a narrow desk, wrote many a witty crack...
...displayed a collection of small elephants. Loop district street lights were decorated with the party symbol on bunting. But throughout the length & breadth of the city there was not to be found a single Republican badge, button, sign or slogan urging the selection of anyone for office. Colyumnist Heywood Broun reported: "Herbert Clark Hoover is the forgotten...
Last week the Socialists, with considerably less harmony, began formulating the issues on which Nominees Thomas & Maurer will campaign. A bitter struggle resulted in what Colyumist Heywood Broun, defeated Socialist candidate for Congress and New York City alderman, wryly called his "first political victory." The convention voted (80-to-71) for repeal of the 18th Amendment and Government sale of liquor. Other plans: U. S. recognition of Soviet Russia, participation in the League of Nations, ten billion dollars worth of Federal unemployment relief and public works, cancellation of War debts, increased inheritance, personal and corporation income taxes, a two-year...
Friends of the Brown Derby insisted Mr. Smith had dictated that section of his address himself. When Governor Roosevelt was shown the two sections, he laughingly remarked: "Merely a coincidence." The flowery allusiveness of the Roosevelt speech at St. Paul moved Heywood Broun, New York World-Telegram colyumist, last week to write: "The fighting Governor is going before the country on the proposition that Thomas Jefferson was a better man than Alexander Hamilton. . . . The fearless one will eventually come out against the extravagance of Grant's second administration. ... A primer for voters might well begin with the injunction...
University 150-pound crew--Stroke, J. T. G. Nichols '34; 7, Robert Livermore, Jr. '32; '6, Heywood Fox '33; 5, H. G. Pearson, Jr. '34; 4, R. R. White '32; 3, G. L. Dow, Jr. ocC; 2, C. G. Mixter, Jr. '34; bow, R. C. Phillips '34; cox, F. F. Jones...