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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impeccably clothed, British-born wine merchant, Broun spent four years at Harvard, never got his degree. He tried three times to make the Crimson, failed each time. In 1910 he went to work as sports editor of the New York Morning Telegraph, was fired two years later. Then he went to the Tribune as a reporter, became a rewrite man, copyreader, Sunday magazine editor, dramatic critic, book reviewer, finally columnist...
...after he transferred to the World, as a columnist in 1921 that his career really began. His column, It Seems to Me, ran for 18 years, first in the World, then in Scripps-Howard's Telegram, later in the World-Telegram, when Publisher Howard merged the two papers in 1931. But in all of them it was informal, effortless, personal. A man of tremendous heart and unfailing kindness, Broun was led by his sympathies first into Socialism, then to the brink of Communism, though he never actually joined the Communist Party...
...wrote a sober obituary on the death of Socialist Eugene V. Debs in 1926, two bitter columns on Sacco & Vanzetti the year after. In 1933 he announced his resolve to start a union for reporters. A few months later the American Newspaper Guild was founded, with Broun as chairman. Most of its routine work was done by other officers, but Broun was always the Guild's presiding saint: his rotund figure constantly protected...
...before his contract with the World-Telegram expired (TIME, Dec. 11), Broun signed a new contract with the New York Post. Then in Connecticut he took to his bed with bronchitis. To the World-Telegram, a few days earlier than usual, he sent his annual Christmas parable about the two old kings and the young wise man. (His great & good friend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, once read it at a Christmas ceremony in Washington.) For the Post he wrote but one column...
...more than two years, rumors have been abroad that a big newspaper deal would shortly pop up in Atlanta. Last week that rumor ripened into fact. Dayton Publisher James Middleton Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio. Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1920 against Ohio Publisher Warren Gamaliel Harding, stepped from a plane in Atlanta to announce that he had bought two papers: the Atlanta Journal and William Randolph Hearst's Atlanta Georgian. With them he got the Journal's 50,000-watt radio station, WTSB, and a 40% interest in another, less important transmitter, WAGA...