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This problem of lost causes finds a curious modern parallel in the refusal of Norman Thomas to support the fusion ticket in New York City. There is an interesting correspondence on just this point in the Nation, between Mr. Thomas and Oswald Garrison Villard, who believes that so fine an opportunity for deposing the sorry shame yelept O'Brien ought not be overlooked. Thus he is not so fastidious as Mr. Thomas, who looks upon Boss Koenig as the undeniably unpleasant thug he is, chides Mr. La Guardia for camping among the enemy, even in the high...
...weekly with so few concessions to the popular taste must face a rather discouraging financial future. The Nation, although it has been fortified by the purse and picturesqueness of Oswald Garrison Villard, exists precariously, and even so challenging a publication as the New Republic must rely largely upon endowment for its support. Polity is less sensational, farther removed from the meretricious mens Americans which finds its nourishment in such journals as the successful Time and leaves the American Mercury to slide into the quiet tenor of bankruptcy. Perhaps Polity can afford the limitation on popularity which its mild and legal...
Retired. Oswald Garrison Villard, as editor of The Nation (but he will contribute a weekly signed page "Issues & Men"); George McClelland Reynolds, as board chairman of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust...
...walked into Harbin last week dressed in a potato sack and part of a tent. Other U. S. travelers were not so lucky. Nude, blue with cold, suffering from exhaustion they staggered into town to tell about four brigand-staged trainwrecks. Most graphic description came from young Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the Nation, on his way across Russia to study in Britain at Cambridge...
Manchurian bandits derailed the Chang chun-Harbin train, killing twelve, injuring 47. They kidnapped an undetermined number of passengers, robbed 600. One of the passengers was Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation.) He escaped unhurt, with passport and money, lost only his luggage. With William Vincent Astor, Ichthyologist Charles Haskins Townsend, nine guests and several thousand kingfish and sea bass aboard, the Astor yacht Nonrmahal sailed from Manhattan for Bermuda. The fish, which are indigenous to the Atlantic Coast, were to be dumped overboard near Bermuda, to acclimate them to warm waters in hope...