Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once publisher of the newspaper trade journal Fourth Estate, organizer and first president of Columbia Broadcasting System, 51-year-old Harry Newman is best known to newspapermen as the clever promotion expert who undertook in 1927 to make America reindeer-meat conscious, so that rich Arthur & Leonard Baldwin could realize profits on their $6,000,000 reindeer business in Alaska. Mr. Newman sold many a leading newspaper his Christmas circulation promotion stunt which had as its climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen...
Undefeated Dartmouth and once beaten Yale led the polling with three men on the first team, while Harvard and Cornell each had two men represented, and Columbia...
Earlier in the afternoon, Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, described the Act as "Swiss-cheese neutrality" in a broadcast to the nation over the Columbia Broadcasting System. Remarking that the American people cannot be put in "hermetically-sealed cans" he declared that it is "self-interest to prepare in advance to prevent the storm...
Nathaniel Peffer, professor, at Columbia University, denied that there was a "middle ground between neutrality and war," and proposed a "do-nothing policy as the one chance for peace." Turning to the Far-Eastern conflict he said that only military force could stop Japan...
...precision on spinner plays "Struck was awarded one of the half-back posts, with Clint Frank of Yale at quarter, Sid Luckman Columbia's chief groundgainer, at the other half, and Bob McLoed, captain-elect for the Big Green, in the fullback post...