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Many a reader of the Scripps-Howard liberal New York Telegram wondered what its editors thought of, what they would do about Colyumist Heywood Broun's Socialist candidacy for Congress (TIME, Aug. 11). Last week they learned from Editor Roy Wilson Howard: "We don't think much of it and we are going to do less...
...nomination constituted a threat. But a hasty survey is reassuring. In the last election the Socialist candidate in the 17th District polled some 1,600 out of something over 60,000* votes cast. . . . That Broun is running on a so-called Socialist ticket seems ... of no importance. The Telegram is opposed to Marxian Socialism ... as unsound and impractical. But . . . the Telegram has no fear of the 'mercerized' socialism of independent thinkers of the type of Norman Thomas and Heywood Broun. . . . Theirs is Socialism in name only. . . . Meantime, Broun will continue to write for the Telegram...
...York was amused to hear last week that Heywood Broun, big, shambling syndicated colyumist for the New York Telegram, would run as the Socialist candidate for the House of Representatives in the "silk stocking" district of Manhattan now represented by Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt...
Like Editor Sime Silverman of Variety (TIME, April 7), Zit began his journalistic career on the New York Morning Telegraph. In 1904 he started a vaudeville department in the Telegram, switched to the now-defunct Evening Mail where he originated the "racetrack chart" form of reviewing vaudeville bills...
...months. Howard returned to Papillion, entered politics. Only straight Democrat running against the American Protective Association, Populist ("Demopop") and Republican candidates, he was elected to the State legislature in 1895. From 1896 to 1900 he served as Probate Judge of Sarpy County. He purchased the Columbus (Neb.) Weekly Telegram, edited it. In 1917 he had one term as Nebraska's lieutenant governor, returned to journalism, made the Telegram a daily in 1922. In 1923 he was elected to Congress, sold control of the Telegram, though he still writes for it daily and receives an editorial salary. In Congress: most...