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Broun

American  
[broon] / brun /

noun

  1. (Matthew) Heywood (Campbell), 1888–1939, U.S. journalist, essayist, and novelist.


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"To be honest, it's a complex question and we're not sure we have a really simple answer," Mr Broun admitted.

From BBC • May 17, 2025

Another was Samuel Colgate, whose soap manufacturing company became the target of a years-long boycott launched by “freethinkers throughout the country,” according to Comstock biographers Heywood Broun and Margaret Leech.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2023

Broun lost a Senate primary in 2014 and lost to Collins in a comeback bid in 2016.

From Washington Times • Jun. 4, 2020

In 1985, while working as a columnist at The Seattle Times, Mr. Anderson was named the winner of the Heywood Broun Award, the highest prize of The Newspaper Guild, the nationwide union representing newspaper staff.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2018

Editorial writer Heywood Broun also connected the panic to the crisis in Europe.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow