Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia Broadcasting System declined to make public the amounts of its bills for political broadcasting but the grand total of the two big systems and their smaller competitors will probably be between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. It will not be surprising if the Republican expenditures for the entire campaign run over $7,500,000, if Democratic expenditures run about $5,000,000. Many a voter may feel that this is a lot of money to spend on a campaign. It is spent, however, to pick a President who will last four years, a Congress which will last...
...Sportswriter Tunis' list of professionals: Alabama, Baylor, Boston College, Bucknell, Carnegie Tech, Colgate, Columbia, Detroit, Duke, Duquesne, Fordham, Georgetown, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana State, Marquette, Michigan State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Santa Clara, St. Mary's, Southern California, Southern Methodist, Stanford, Syracuse, Temple, Texas Christian, Tulane, Villanova, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Washington, Western Maryland, West Virginia, Wisconsin...
...Democrats carried the urban colleges pretty well. Barnard, Columbia, Manhattan, and New York University all gave Roosevelt a 5 to 2 lead. De Paul in Chicago gave Roosevelt 1084 to Landon's 227. The University of Chicago gave Roosevelt a 2 to 1 preference, and also had the largest minor party vote, giving Thomas of the Socialists 143, and Browder of the Communists...
Adventure in Manhattan (Columbia). Endowed with psychic intuition enabling him to predict crimes before they occur, an eccentric young reporter (Joel Mc-Crea) uses this gift to foil an international thief (Reginald Owen), shock his editor, captivate a young actress (Jean Arthur...
...Columbia's It Happened One Night, which was the work of Writer Robert Riskin and Director Frank Capra, proved to the industry that production cost is not indispensable to box-office success. Adventure in Manhattan, which is not the work of Writer Robert Riskin and Director Frank Capra, may conceivably prove to the producers of It Happened One Night that box-office success is not necessarily the reward of second-hand whimsey...