Word: bellingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hobby Club of Bellingham, Wash, one day six years ago, a big, solidly built, well-dressed educator named Charles Henry Fisher suddenly remarked: "If I had money I would invest it in Soviet bonds. They are paying 7%." The manager of Bellingham's Herald, angular old Frank Sefrit, turned fierce eyes on him and barked: "That's the most radical statement I have ever heard made in this club:" Tapping the educator on the chest, he added ominously: "Fisher, I'm agin you and I hope you know what that means." By last week it meant...
...Bellingham (pop. 30,823), a turbulent town long torn by private feuds and political catfights, Newspaperman Sefrit is known as "Little Hearst." Charles Fisher, an educational progressive, for 16 years has been president of Western Washington College of Education at Bellingham, which he made one of the most esteemed teachers' colleges in the U. S. To kick Fisher out of his job became Sefrit's ambition. With other enemies of Fisher he formed a committee, which filed charges that the college seldom displayed the U. S. flag on the campus, had invited subversive speakers to talk...
Many an expansive toper, eager to visit a sick, old, or girl friend, has hired a taxi for an inter-city journey. Sober folk also occasionally take long cab trips. Spinster Catherine Bruen of Brewster, N. Y. has made two round-trip taxi rides to Bellingham, Wash. Homeward-bound from Mexico City last week were 76-year-old Emily Curtis Fisher of Norwood and three other Massachusetts ladies who chartered a sedan and driver from Jack's Taxi Service for the journey. Extraordinary as these treks may seem, they were topped by a trip which last week ended...
...proprietors of KVOS, a 100-watt "coffeepot"* radio station in Bellingham, Wash., 70 miles from Seattle, had a fine idea. Why not start a "Newspaper of the Air" with three or more daily editions to keep KVOS fans up to the minute on world affairs? For advertising, there was the business of Bellingham merchants who would pay for interspersed announcements. For an editor, there was L. H. Darwin, who had once published a Bellingham paper. For news, there were the columns of the Bellingham Herald and the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer, all members of the far-flung Associated Press...
Soon Mr. Darwin and Rogan Jones, the stocky, breezy owner of KVOS, had agreed on a contract, arranged to split profits from the "Newspaper of the Air." Listeners liked the newscasting, the "fighting" editorials which the radio station directed against the Bellingham Herald and other political foes. First trouble for KVOS came when the A. P. asked for an injunction to prevent the broadcasters from appropriating its news as it appeared in member papers. Financial support came, to KVOS from the National Association of Broadcasters, representatives of a notoriously timid yet greedy industry, glad to find an obscure test case...