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...Idiots Can Vote." Herself a mother (of two) and grandmother (of one), Mrs. Littledale earned her blue pencil by starting as a cub reporter. Fresh from Smith College, she went to work on Oswald Garrison Villard's old New York Evening Post, and became its woman's-suffrage editor: "It was wonderful, just what I wanted to do." It was so wonderful that she became the suffragettes' pressagent, once paraded down Fifth Avenue with a sign which said "Insane and Idiots Can Vote. Why Can't I?" Later she joined Good Housekeeping, became its World...
...different standards of morality in judging the U.S.S.R. and our country, so it applies two different standards of journalism. Its own irresponsible attacks on genuine liberals is legitimate criticism, but a reasoned objection to its Soviet apologetics is "libel." What a comedown from the days of Godkin and Villard...
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...