Word: villard
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Died. Oswald Garrison Villard, 77, crusading editor (the New York Evening Post, 1897-1918; the Nation, 1918-32); in Manhattan. Heir to the diehard liberalism of his grandfather, Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and to the fortune of his father, Henry Villard (one of the builders of the Northern Pacific Railroad), Editor Villard spent a lifetime plumping for such causes as civil liberties and pacifism, finally came to the conclusion that most of his heroes (notably Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, Al Smith and F.D.R.) had feet of clay...
...Walter Lippmann, Francis Hackett, Elinor Wylie, Rebecca West, Robert Morss Lovett, Edmund Wilson. At his famous staff luncheons, everyone talked in low tones-in' deference to Croly's own shy near-whisper. In the eyes of New Republicans, Croly was a scholar journalist, and Oswald Garrison Villard, his opposite number on the Nation, a mere hotheaded warhorse. They were proud of the difference...
...Alfred M. Landon, William Agar (former Vice President of Freedom House), George Creel, John Dewey, Varian Fry (editor of Common Sense), Publisher Martin J. Quigley, A. Phillip Randolph (President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters), Oswald Garrison Villard, Justice Francis E. Rivers, ex-Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Elliott V. Bell (New York State Superintendent of Banks), Publisher Frederick S. Crofts, Raymond Leslie Buell (former chairman of the Foreign Policy Association...
...hrer should not be visited on his children, protested "obliteration" bombing of German cities. Said they: "Christian people should . . . examine themselves concerning their participation in this carnival of death." The signers included: Pastors Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Haynes Holmes; ex-Editor (the Nation) Oswald Garrison Villard...
Flautist's Kampf. Among many prominent Pierians was first violin Nicholas Longworth (also member of the Porcellian Club), later Speaker of the House of Representatives. At the same time (1890) Liberal Journalist Oswald Garrison Villard (also member of the Deutscher Verein) played second fiddle...