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...over-optimistic. Many a good man has been known to fall by the wayside. The late Heywood Broun, for instance, three times knew the pleasure of being cut from a Crimson competition. We never could quite figure out whose error that...
...distrust begins with Republicans. Heywood Broun had a story about his Republican grandmother, who, when told that raging floods were sweeping New England, snapped: "Democrats!" While never entirely absolving the Democrats when anything goes wrong, Josephson is more inclined to snap: Republicans! First Republican President maker in this book, which covers the period from 1896 to 1919, is Marcus Alonzo Hanna, the Ohio boss credited with electing McKinley and coming the expression: Stand pat! Second Republican President maker is Roosevelt I, who in so far as McKinley's assassin did not make him President, made himself President. He also...
PETAIN, MARSHAL OF FRANCE." CHESTER D. HEYWOOD, Captain Company K 371st Infantry Worcester, Mass...
George Britt is a softspoken, grey-haired Kentuckian who has been a newspaperman for 24 of his 44 years. A liberal with no nonsense about him, he collaborated with the late Heywood Broun in an expose of antiSemitism, has been a New York World-Telegram expert at unearthing municipal corruption for ten years. Last June George Britt wrote a series of articles on fifth-column activities in the U. S. that pulled together a good many facts on the size and tactics of subversive organizations, painted a picture that was scary but not altogether clear. Last week he turned...
...Bill Laurence joined the old New York World as a reporter, moved on to the Times in 1930. Three years ago he won a Pulitzer prize for "distinguished service in the interpretation of science." Newsman Laurence knew Heywood Broun (who never got through Harvard) on the World and he was one of the Guild's first members when Broun founded it in 1933. For two years (1934-35) he was chairman of the Times Guild Unit. What finally turned him against it was "the increasing tyranny of Guild unionism...