Broun, Heywood << broon, HAY wud >> Campbell, (1888-1939), was one of the most widely read newspaper columnists in the United States in the early 1900’s. Broun began his liberal, independent column, “It Seems to Me,” after joining the New York Tribune staff in 1912. He moved to the New York World in 1921, and to the New York Telegram in 1928. His role in organizing editorial employees into the American Newspaper Guild in 1933 made him controversial. He was born on Dec. 7, 1888, in Brooklyn, New York. He died on Dec. 18, 1939.
