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  AllRefer.com - Oswald Garrison Villard (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Oswald Garrison Villard 1872–1949, American editor and author, b.
The son of Henry Villard and the grandson, on his mother's side, of William Lloyd Garrison, he was a lifelong liberal and a pacifist.
In 1897 he became an editorial writer on the New York Evening Post and after inheriting the paper from his father was its editor until he sold it in 1918.
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 Search Results for "Garrison"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Villard Oral History
Villard: In our first year, there was no commitment as to what we should do, and I drew as a roommate the guy who gave me the nickname "Mike." He was planning to major in English literature and introduced me to a lot of his friends.
Villard: As I say, I sort of baffled them at the University but I had my own radio club by that time at Yale, and it was clear that if I was not to do writing all my life I'd like to become an engineer-- and a radio engineer-- and learn more about it.
Villard: It seemed to me that what happened after the war was that there was recognition of the fact that general physics world split up into two parts, the high energy physics and all the rest.
www.ieee.org /organizations/history_center/oral_histories/transcripts/villard43.html   (11907 words)

  
 Oswald Garrison Villard / Biography
Oswald Garrison Villard, who had begun writing for The Nation in 1894, became a Nation editorial writer and president of The Nation Company in 1908, and took over as editor in 1918.
Under Villard The Nation was staunch in its attack on the extension of the Monroe Doctrine to justify U.S. imperialism in Latin America, opposed the "theft" of the Panama Canal and the plan to annex Hawaii, and supported independence for the Philippines and self-determination for the Irish.
When Villard declined to endorse the single-tax -- a formula aimed at eliminating land speculation and promoting economic equality -- as the solution to the country's economic woes, Neilson withdrew his support and founded a new magazine, The Freeman, with Nock as its editor.
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 Oswald Villard Jr., father of ‘over-the-horizon’ radar, dies at 87
Villard was born Sept. 17, 1916, in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., to a distinguished family with a long tradition of activism.
Villard, whose call letters were W6QYT, was a faculty adviser to the Stanford Amateur Radio Club and a license trustee of W6YX from the early 1950s to the early 1980s.
Villard is survived by three children -- Thomas Houghton Villard of Menlo Park, Calif.; Barbara Suzanne Villard of Tucson, Ariz.; and John Sandford Villard of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/2004/january28/villardobit-128.html   (1431 words)

  
 Oswald Garrison Villard Biography / Biography of Oswald Garrison Villard Main Biography
Editor of the "Nation" magazine, Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949) was one of the foremost American liberals of the 20th century.
Oswald Garrison Villard was born in Germany on March 13, 1872.
Villard was educated at private schools and Harvard.
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 Oswald Villard Jr. | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Oswald Garrison Villard Jr., a pioneer in the development of radar able to see over the horizon, died Jan. 7 in Palo Alto.
Villard, an electronics engineer, parlayed his youthful interest in radio into advanced research with military and other uses, including "stealth" technology to stop radar from bouncing back from aircraft, so planes are nearly invisible to it.
Villard was a professor at Stanford University for five decades.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040223/news_1m23villard.html   (592 words)

  
 Oswald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oswald of Northumbria, King of Northumbria in the 7th century
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, an animated cartoon character from the 1920s and 1930s, created by Walt Disney for Universal Studios; Oswald was traded to the Walt Disney Company in exchange for Al Michaels becoming NBC's play by play announcer for NBC Sunday Night Football.
Oswald Loomis, a fictional character and Superman villain the Prankster
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 STANFORD Magazine: May/June 2004 > Class Notes
Oswald Garrison “Mike” Villard Jr., who taught electrical engineering at Stanford for five decades, helped create some of the Cold War’s most advanced technologies, the kind of high-tech research that propels spy novels.
Jim Barnum, a scientist at SRI International who was one of Villard’s graduate advisees in the 1960s, remembers when Villard’s backyard was full of receivers and antennas.
Villard is survived by one daughter, Suzanne; two sons, John and Thomas; and three grandchildren.
www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2004/mayjun/classnotes/villard.html   (421 words)

  
 The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page 255, Nov. 1899, U. of Illinois Press
Villard, his uncles Francis Jackson Garrison and Wendell Phillips Garrison, and his mother Fanny Garrison Villard were all donors to Tuskegee Institute.
Villard became disillusioned with BTW's conservative approach and his refusal to become publicly outraged at racial injustice, and by 1908 their relationship had cooled somewhat, although Villard still consulted BTW on educational matters and favorably reported the Tuskegean's work in the Evening Post.
Villard's interest in reform spanned most of the liberal causes of his generation, including woman suffrage, civil liberties, pacifism, and anti-imperialism.
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 Fanny Villard
Her son, Oswald Garrison Villard, was born in 1872.
She was also, like her son, Oswald Garrison Villard, a founder member of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).
Villard was also a member of the Woman's Peace Party (WPP) and after the war helped establish the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
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 Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr., Graduate Student Fellowship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Following this start, an Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr., EE Graduate Student Fellowship fund was established at Stanford and Prof.
Villard was enthusiatic when he heard about the establishment of the fund and he also became a donor.
Villard, and (2) to support a graduate student with an interest in radioscience, broadly defined.
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 Oswald Garrison 'Mike' Villard Jr., father of 'over-the-horizon' radar, dies
Villard received his doctorate from Stanford in 1949 and rose through the faculty ranks to full professor in 1955.
In the 1980s, Villard designed an inconspicuous antenna that could null out signals that jammed communications, allowing people in oppressed countries to receive Voice of America radio programs despite the efforts by their governments to block them.
Villard is survived by three children -- Thomas Houghton Villard of Atherton, Calif.; Barbara Suzanne Villard of Tucson, Ariz.; and John Sandford Villard of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
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 Villard Books
Villard's Legacy: Studies in Medieval Technology, Science and Art in Memory of Jean Gimpel (Avista Studies in the History of Medieval Science, Technology and Art)
Henry Villard and the railways of the Northwest
Oswald Garrison Villard, liberal of the 1920's (Men and movements series) (Men and movements series)
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 History News Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Osward Garrison Villard provided a rare direct link between the classical liberal anti-imperialism of the late nineteenth century and the Old Right of the 1940s.
He was the son of Henry Villard, a wealthy railroad magnate, who owned the The Nation and The New York Evening Post.
Villard was also a founder of the American Anti-Imperialist League which favored independence for the territories captured in the Spanish-American War.
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 Oswald Garrison Villard Biography / Biography of Oswald Garrison Villard Literary Biography
Oswald Garrison Villard Biography / Biography of Oswald Garrison Villard Literary Biography
His father, Henry Villard, was a newspaper publisher and one of the builders of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
His fortune allowed Oswald Garrison Villard to pursue his interests with relative security, but the breadth of his zeal would have been impressive under any circumstances.
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 Oswald Villard -- electronics pioneer at SRI
His great-grandfather was abolitionist-pacifist William Lloyd Garrison, and his father was Oswald Garrison Villard, a longtime foe of U.S. military intervention abroad and editor of the liberal-left journal the Nation in New York City, who left the magazine in 1940 when it abandoned its opposition to U. entry into World War II.
Professor Villard "said his dad's major worry was that he would come west and be co-opted by major industry," recalls a close friend, Professor Dave Leeson of Stanford.
Professor Villard is survived by a daughter, Suzanne, of Tucson, and two sons, John of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and Thomas, who lives in the Bay Area.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/20/BAGFS4D8QD1.DTL   (703 words)

  
 Henry Villard
He then obtained a controlling interest in the Northern Pacific RR and became (1881) its president, but completion of the building of that railroad through the mountains bankrupted him (1883).
With new capital Villard once more gained control of the Northern Pacific and in 1889 became chairman of the board of directors.
Oswald Garrison Villard - Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872–1949, American editor and author, b.
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 The Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Storey and Villard corresponded about conditions in Haiti in 1916 and Storey addressed the situations there and in Santo Domingo in his annual address to the Anti-Imperialist League that year.
For Villard, "this was the completest proof that it was not war that was waged in Haiti."
Storey, Villard, and others affiliated with the NAACP were also concerned that the interventions were racially motivated.
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 Race & Ethnicity: Villard: The Negro in the Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment stormed Fort Wagner July 18, 1863, only to be driven back with the loss of its colonel, Robert Gould Shaw, and many of its rank and file, it established for all time the fact that the colored soldier would fight and fight well.
It soon fell to the lot of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry to prove that the negroes could do as well under fire in the Indian wars as they had when fighting for the freedom of their race.
While the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry had merely garrison work to do, the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry scouted for years against hostile Indians in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas, always acquitting themselves honorably.
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 Oswald Garrison Villard [Collection of] John Brown Manuscripts 1839-1943.
Oswald Garrison Villard [Collection of] John Brown Manuscripts 1839-1943.
Material gathered by Oswald Garrison Villard in the researches for his biography JOHN BROWN, 1800-1859: A BIOGRAPHY FIFTY YEARS AFTER.
A large part of the materials is copies of correspondence both contemporary and of a later period, concerning John Brown and his associates, especially in the Kansas Territory and at the Harper's Ferry raid.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/collections/html/4079506.html   (137 words)

  
 Oswald Garrison Villard: Pacifist at War - Wreszin, Michael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Oswald Garrison Villard: Pacifist at War - Wreszin, Michael
Bloomington, IN Indiana University Press 1965 fair to good fair to good DJ scuffed and foxed: edges worn, small tears, small chips missing.
Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949) was the editor of The Nation, and put his pacifism ahead of defeating the Germans as he advocated keeping the United States out of World War II.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Tireless Liberal -- Apr. 10, 1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
So many biographies of reformers have recently appeared that it may become an open question whether their work was ever as important as their books about it.
But for Oswald Garrison Villard, owner for 15 years of The Nation, and tireless champion of civil liberties, no such question is possible.
Son of the builder of the Northern Pacific, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, friend of liberals big and little, Villard has more than most of the autobiographers to write about, if the criterion were staying power, number of...
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 Villard, Oswald Garrison on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
VILLARD, OSWALD GARRISON [Villard, Oswald Garrison] 1872-1949, American editor and author, b.
His writings include John Brown: A Biography Fifty Years After (1910), Newspapers and Newspaper Men (1923), and an autobiography, The Fighting Years (1939).
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Publishers of newspapers and periodicals, faced with rising costs and an audience thirsting for war news, felt a terrible frustration.
Oswald Garrison Villard, the president of the New York Evening Post, discusses the hardship of producing a daily newspaper in a war-torn world.
For one thing this war has made it impossible to revive to any extent the old charge that the newspapers brought it on.
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 The Extra Mile - Points of Light Volunteer Pathway
In 1909, W.E.B. DuBois, a leading spokesman in the campaign for racial equality, joined Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, William English Walling, John Milholland, Oswald Garrison Villard, Frances Blascoer and 54 other prominent Americans as founding officers of the NAACP.
She even had to step in as executive secretary for a year when the hired secretary had a falling out with Du Bois and Oswald Garrison Villard.
In her involvement in the organization, Ovington served on the advisory committee of the Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society and worked closely with Moorfield Storey, Oswald Garrison Villard, W. DuBois, and James Weldon Johnson.
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 Father Of 'Over-The-Horizon' Radar Dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Stanford and the entire engineering community were enriched by his person and his accomplishments." Villard taught at Stanford for five decades and directed STARLab's predecessor, the RadioScience Laboratory, from 1958 to 1972.
When Stanford ceased all classified work in 1969 in response to anti- war protests, Villard moved his group to Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in Menlo Park.
He was a supportive board member of the resulting company, California Microwave." Villard's wife, Barbara "Bobbie" Slater Letts, died in 1996.
www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/2004/jan/m27-016.shtml   (1235 words)

  
 Proofing
Sturm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939 - 1941, by Justus D. Doenecke.
- Villards protest about persecution of the Jews.
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 DG4AUAM.html
Most notable achievements were the work in the successful effort to avert war with Mexico in 1916 and the encouragement of opposition to peacetime conscription following World War I. The office was raided by the government and AUAM publications were sometimes stopped by the postal authorities but the organization continued unintimidated.
Among the ost active members were Emily Greene Balch, Crystal Eastman, Oswald Garrison Villard, Charles Hallinan, Paul Kellogg, Amos Pinchot, Henry R. Mussey, Alice Lewisohn, Zona Gale, and Florence Kelley.
All of the known surviving records are deposited in the Peace Collection.
www.swarthmore.edu /library/peace/DG001-025/DG004AUAM.html   (591 words)

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