Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia University New York City...
Strange to relate, TIME erred again. In your issue of Oct. 23 in re Surgeon General Parran's crusade against Syphilis you state that neither National or Columbia will allow the word to be used over their networks. On Aug. 25 on invitation I talked before the Montreal Rotary Club for 30 minutes about Syphilis, using the word several times. The Rotary Club received many comments from radio listeners both in U. S. and Canada. The talk was not censored before being broadcast due to Columbia's faith that Rotary would not broadcast anything offensive or objectional...
...automobile, whisked him out of Washington and out of the shadowy silence in which he had been discreetly kept during the campaign. Their goal was Greenbelt, $10,000,000 model suburb which Dr. Tugwell is building on 8,000 rolling Maryland acres five miles north of the District of Columbia. For the handsomest braintruster, this display of Presidential favor came at a critical moment. Congress last session had refused to appropriate funds for his Resettlement Administration, forcing him to confine its activities chiefly to drought relief, financed by handouts from WPA. With a thoroughgoing Governmental re-organization in prospect, Administrator...
...Using Columbia and Texas as examples, Edwards pointed out the absence of freedom at 75 percent of American higher institutions. He commented upon the Burke case at the former college and censorship of the student press at the latter...
Convicted a year ago of conspiring to sell a West Point appointment for $1,000, hunted in the District of Columbia, Indiana and California after they failed to appear in Washington, D. C. to start serving jail terms of four months to a year, California's onetime Representative John Henry Hoeppel ("Colonel Hoopla") and his son Charles Jerome were nabbed by Federal detectives in Richmond, Va. Last summer Congressman Hoeppel lost his district's Democratic renomination...