Word: broun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easily. For my part, I heartily disapprove of attempts of English instructors to develop easy, flippant writing, when such an endeavor requires the turning away from the difficult and serious treatment of concepts not easy to evaluate and sometimes exceedingly complex, and the adoption of a sort of Heywood Broun style of writing...
...Heywood Broun...
Last week a national referendum of the American Newspaper Guild, which claims 5,000 members, failed by 35 votes of the two-thirds majority needed for affiliation with the American Federation of Labor. Undaunted, Guild President Heywood Broun announced: "A large majority of the Guild has given a clear mandate for the conception of the Guild as a trade union organization...
...affiliation with the American Federation of Labor, provided two-thirds of the Guild's entire membership approves. ¶ Went on record for a vertical union in the newspaper industry. ¶ Authorized its officers to work for "an independent political Labor party." ¶ Unanimously re-elected President Heywood Broun for a third term...
Where they dance to the tune of Heywood Broun...