Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another whose eyes explored the sea of miners' faces was Detective John Apostolides, famed Communist-spotter of the District of Columbia police...
Although he was a post-graduate one year at Columbia, Alex has his fondest words and thoughts for Hamilton. In appreciation he received an honorary degree in 1924. Dramatic critic for the Times, Herald, and World in New York from 1914 to 1928, Woolicott has since puttered his way to a fortune as a writer and radio star. Pudgy, preferring physical inertness, be once acted on Broadway in a play that required little effort beyond keeping from rolling off a divan. Yet, in the Great War, he became a sergeant in a hospital unit...
Raising an issue of vital importance to the whole nation, the recent controversy between the Honorable Henry P. Fletcher, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and William S. Paley, President of the Columbia Broadcasting System, is nowhere nearer solution than it was two months ago at the outbreak of hostilites. The part that the great broadcasting networks are to play in presenting political issues to the voting public of America, the editorial power such organizations are to have, the source and limitations of that power, are questions which must be settled now, and settled in such fashion that future controversies...
...present case, Mr. Paley places broadcasting in the same bed with the national press and demands for it the same editorial powers that newspapers enjoy. Under Mr. Paley's gentlemanly and humanitarian administration, Columbia has proved its right to those powers and its ability to use them with wisdom and impartiality. He is to be congratulated for his personal ability and philosophy and the fundamental honesty of his organization. There obtains, however, a vitally important distinction between the newspapers and the broadcasting chains, namely, the chains are under ninety day licenses from the national government...
...than Democrats have spoken and are scheduled to speak in the future) has given up his claim to consideration as a gentleman and dubbed himself a politician pure and simple. Discontented with impartial treatment, he has reduced himself to the level of the meanest country mud slingers by maligning Columbia publicity because he could not get partial treatment...