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...death of Henry Villard, Oswald Garrison Villard, his son, inherited the paper, In 1917 the younger Villard sold The Post to Thomas W. Lamont. Mr. Lament was understood to have spent much money on The Post, and it was common talk that he "dropped a million or two" in it. Early in 1922 he sold the paper to a syndicate of 34 men headed by Edwin T. Gay and including Harold I. Pratt, Mrs. Willard Straight, Clarence M. Woolley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marshall Field, Charles C. Burlingham, Cleveland H. Dodge, August Heckscher, Finley J. Shepard, George W. Wichersham, Paul...
...Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of The Nation, carried on with his series* of articles descriptive of the press of America, chronicled his impression of Washington: A Capital Without a Thunderer...
Under the title A Newspaper with Six Thousand Owners, Oswald Garrison Villard published in The Nation an account of the Minnesota...
...accordance with an annual custom, the Harvard Menorah Society will give a banquet this evening at 7 o'clock in the Hotel Lenox, at which several prominent speakers will address the society. Among the speakers will be Ludwig Lewisohn, Oswald Garrison Villard '93, Henry Hurwitz '08, and Professor D. G. Lyon...
...Herr Oswald Sprengler, the German historian whose book, Downfall of the Occident, was one of the sensations of the past few years, accuses France of carrying on Napoleon's ambitions: "When Napoleon founded the Grand Duchy of Berg in the Ruhr Basin and the Kingdom of Westphalia he observed to his brother-in-law that the Ruhr was the strategic road to the North Sea. This thought of Napoleon's . . . is gradually taking shape in Premier Poincaré's policy . . . it is only a short distance from the Ruhr to the North Sea. . . . France could seize...