Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facilitate his flood of free smokes, Mr. Hill is using every station of N. B. C.'s combined Red & Blue networks, at a weekly cost of $22,000 for a full hour on Wednesday nights, repeats the show three evenings later for another $18,395 over the entire Columbia chain...
...guilty of South Carolina's supreme sin: trafficking with Negroes for political purposes. Nevertheless, in one day last week "Tieless Joe" Tolbert and his black-&-whites turned a trick the like of which it takes the State's Democrats more than two months to achieve. Meeting in Columbia Boss Tolbert and his Republican committee quickly nominated his nephew, Joseph Augustis Tolbert of Greenville, to stand for the U. S. Senate this November...
This year's Senatorial campaign began at Lexington, across the Congaree River from Columbia, on June 9 and rolled on, a county a day, through the west central part of the State. After two weeks an adjournment was taken so that candidates could attend the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. By July 4 the tour had covered the southern "low country" counties along the coast, then skipped to the Piedmont. In mid-July the stumpsters knocked off for another week to allow voters time to harvest their tobacco crop, resumed their speech-making in the northeastern tier of counties...
With free quotations from the Bible and Abraham Lincoln, Gerry McGeer won seats in the British Columbia Legislature and the Canadian House of Commons and the mayoralty of Vancouver with the biggest majority in history. Since the rise of Alberta's Social Credit Premier William Aberhart in the next province, he has lost his self-assumed rank of "Canada's Greatest Money Reformer." Last winter he invited every celebrity he could think of to Vancouver's two-month celebration, hoped for President Roosevelt. One invitation reached London's Lord Mayor Sir Percy Vincent, a retired millinery...
...ranked No. 19 in the U. S. insurance lineup. To West Coast insurance, old Pacific Mutual was virtually what Amadeo Peter Gianninrs Bank of America is to West Coast banking (see p. 51). Outside California it was licensed to do business in some 40 States, the District of Columbia and Hawaii...