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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...
With this exchange of tentative pokes in the public prints, pudgy William Green of the A. F. of L. and puffy Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild last week started something that neither of them could finish before the week was out. Mr. Green suggested that the Guild would be better off if Mr. Broun would resign as president, since his activities had left it "torn to shreds, with its subordinate officers set out like ducks on a rock for the publishers to shoot...
Stage-managed by his Washington press-agent was a luncheon the following day at which Mr. Girdler carried on for the benefit of a few handpicked newshawks. Earlier efforts by reporters to arrange an open press conference collapsed when Mr. Girdler is said to have learned that Columnist Heywood Broun planned to attend. Even at his private conference Mr. Girdler got into hot water. Calling the Mediation Board "incompetent and unfair," he asked: "Who is Taft? He is a man who likes to talk about the things his father did. Who is Ed McGrady? He is Fannie Perkins...
...chest is to be collected. In one important aspect, however, the Guild remained unchanged. The convention's votes (143 this year) are still dominated by the solid bloc of 24 from the New York City delegation, which is affectionately devoted and subservient to Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood Broun, the Guild's founder and perennial president...
...when presented last week at $2.34 by Manhattan's R. H. Macy store, were William Randolph Hearst Jr., publisher of the New York American, and Mayor and Mrs. LaGuardia. Other newspaper celebrities who helped launch Editor Spiro's game included Cartoonist Otto Soglow, Columnists Arthur ("Bugs") Baer, Heywood Broun and Stanley Walker, famed onetime city editor of the New York Herald Tribune...