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...When Heywood Broun, the New York World-Telegram's crusading columnist, called the first meeting to form a Newspaper Guild in December 1933, Morris Watson was one of the handful that showed up. From the outset he was a zealous Guild organizer and officer, outspoken not only against his employers but leading a campaign against the Brooklyn Eagle, an AP member. He headed deputations to Washington, signed demands by the Guild to his AP superiors. He was told his Guild activities were lessening his value at the AP and finally, Oct. 18, 1935 he was fired "because...
...lawns towards the lights of the Potomac's bridges and the distant dome of the Capitol, she has entertained nearly every Democratic Senator in the Capitol, all the important Ambassadors and many another bigwig, taking particular delight in pitting conservatives and liberals, such as Justice Roberts and Heywood Broun, or George Creel and David Lawrence...
Harvard has never felt chagrin at its Class of 1910 which featured such celebrities as Columnists Walter Lippmann and Heywood Broun, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, Communist John Reed, New York's Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., Economist Stuart Chase. The Class of 1911, however, sported so few notables 25 years after graduation as to prompt Sportswriter John Roberts Tunis, Harvard 1911, to publish a pessimistic portrayal of his classmates' aspirations and accomplishments (Was College Worth While?}. Most distinguished member of 1911, in the consensus of the class, was Cartoonist Gluyas Williams, who shone on the Harvard Lampoon...
...Prymak of Huntington School, B. Davidson of Tome School, and Cooper of Moses Brown School, will compete in the 100-yard back stroke. In the 220-yard free style, Seth Heywood, Jr., of Andover and A. Greenhood of Exeter will strive for victory, as will Frank Schofield, Jr., of Moses Brown in the 100-yard free style. K. Twining of St. Gorge's will probably find T. H. Mahoney of Andover his strongest rival in the diving contest...
About the time of the A. B. A. officers' Grand Rapids gathering there took place in Manhattan in the apartment of Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood Campbell Broun a meeting which had nothing to do with U. S. legalists. At Mr. Broun's were gathered a group of liberal-thinking newshawks, and, with them, Mr. Broun's friend, bright-eyed little Lawyer Morris Leopold Ernst. Hatched at this and subsequent meetings was what has since grown to be the American Newspaper Guild. Lawyer Ernst had a lot of ideas about the newshawks' union, became its lawyer, drafted...