 From 1934 to 1940, he was the chairman of the American League Against War and Fascism.He frequently spoke at events held by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and received an honor from its women's division in 1941.In 1927, during a Columbia University symposium, Ward stated that Capitalism is a state of mind and a religion, of which most of the world is skeptical and that only in the United States does it flourish.