1. Heywood Broun worked as a sportswriter, newspaper columnist, and editor in New York City.
21 Facts About Heywood Broun
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Heywood Broun founded the American Newspaper Guild, later known as The Newspaper Guild and now as The NewsGuild-CWA.
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Heywood Broun believed that journalists could help right wrongs, especially social ills.
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Heywood Broun began his professional career writing baseball stories in the sports section of the New York Morning Telegraph.
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Heywood Broun worked at the New York Tribune from 1912 to 1921, rising to drama critic.
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Heywood Broun started working in 1921 for the New York World.
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In 1928, Heywood Broun moved to the Scripps-Howard newspapers, including the New York World-Telegram.
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Heywood Broun's column was published in the World-Telegram until Scripps-Howard abruptly decided not to renew his contract.
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Heywood Broun was then picked up by the New York Post.
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Heywood Broun coined the statement "Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else".
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Heywood Broun's column included criticism of another employer, the New York World, who fired Broun as a result.
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Heywood Broun later left The Nation for the rival The New Republic.
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In 1930, Heywood Broun unsuccessfully ran for the US Congress, as a Socialist.
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In 1933, along with New York Evening Post Editor Joseph Cookman, John Eddy of The New York Times and Allen Raymond of the New York Herald Tribune, Heywood Broun helped to found The Newspaper Guild.
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In 1938, Heywood Broun helped found the weekly tabloid Connecticut Nutmeg, soon renamed Heywood Broun's Nutmeg.
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In 1915, Heywood Broun met Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova and they quickly became engaged.
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Heywood Broun broke off the relationship to rejoin the Ballets Russes in 1916.
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On June 7,1917, Heywood Broun married writer-editor Ruth Hale, a feminist who later co-founded the Lucy Stone League.
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Seven months before his death in 1939, Heywood Broun, who had been an agnostic, converted to Roman Catholicism following discussions with then Reverend Fulton Sheen and Reverend Edward Patrick Dowling,.
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Heywood Broun died of pneumonia, at age 51, in New York City.
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Heywood Broun is buried in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York.