Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religion to Editor Woods ever since July 19, 1918, when he wrote for his paper a remarkable piece of descriptive prophecy: "The most ambitious idea in the way of reclamation and the development of water power ever formulated is now in process of development. The idea contemplates turning the Columbia River back into its old bed in Grand Coulee, by the construction of a giant dam, the reclamation of between one and two million acres of land in Grant, Adams and Franklin counties. . . ." The prophecy has been borne out by the New Deal's Grand Coulee...
Appointed. Maude Adams, famed old-time actress, to be professor of drama at Stephens College (for women) in Columbia, Mo. For her, the college hopes to found the "Maude Adams School of Drama...
Francis C. L. Head, Columbia, Missouri--Hickman High School, Columbia...
David P. Oakes, Seattle--Shawnigan Lake School, British Columbia...
...National Broadcasting Co. prides itself on never letting the Columbia Broadcasting System get ahead of it. In the opinion of many a serious student of U. S. drama, ahead is just where CBS got last April when its skilful experimental Workshop of the Air produced Poet Archibald MacLeish's The Fall of the City. It was the most competent U. S. verse play written for the radio and, setting aside the beauty of its speech and the power of its story, The Fall of the City, as produced by oldtime Radio Engineer Irving Reis, added some new dimensions...