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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World disarmament must take place immediately," declared Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor of the Nation and a former president of the CRIMSON, in a recent interview." A delegation headed by Alanson B. Houghton '86, former ambassador to Great Britain, and Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, should be appointed immediately to go to Geneva and demand that the world disarm. If this is not done at once, the Allies will not be living up to their word that they would disarm to the level of Germany as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton, Butler Should Head Body To Fight for Disarmament,--Villard | 12/1/1934 | See Source »

...handsome, well-dressed people who gathered there to celebrate the 50th birthday of the famed Manhattan girls' school which he started in a small brownstone house on East 45th Street. They were proud that Brearley had attracted the daughters of Cleveland H. Dodge, Herbert L. Satterlee, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Felix M. Warburg, Owen D. Young. They were proud that Brearley had schooled such distinguished personages as Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard, Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey, Sculptress Malvina Hoffman, Actresses Michael Strange and Hope Williams, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brearley's 50th | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...capital without a Thunderer" is what Oswald Garrison Villard likes to call Washington, because it has nothing remotely resembling the London Times. Its press, rarely quoted and hardly ever read outside the District of Columbia, includes: 1) a morning and an evening Hearstpaper which look like Hearstpapers everywhere; 2)a Scripps-Howard paper which differs from others only in its tabloid size; 3) the fat old Washington Evening Star which bulges with more advertising than any other sheet in the country and never dares to say "Boo"; 4) and the Washington Post. The Post attracted little serious attention while irresponsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Johnson v. Meyer | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...antithesis of his immediate predecessors on the Post, Publisher Stern at least shares with its oldtime Editors Edwin Lawrence Godkin and Oswald Garrison Villard, a ready liberalism and an ink-stained knowledge of how to run a newspaper. A young Philadelphian out of the University of Pennsylvania, he bought the New Brunswick (N. J.) Times for $1,500 in 1911, when he was 25. With it, he promptly began a lively campaign to clean up the municipal government. When he sold the Times to political adversaries he got $25,000. He and his wife bought a car, drove to Springfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Welcome to Ulysses | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...many years Professor Hedges has been a leading authority on American Railroad History. Not only has he taught this subject, but he has written many articles and pamphlets on it. His principal contribution in this field is a volume on Henry Villard and the railways of the northwest, published several years ago, and still considered one of the most authoritative sources on that period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Names Hedges To Fill Schlesinger Vacancy | 10/11/1933 | See Source »

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