Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mackenzie King, having won Nova Scotia from the Conservatives in August 1933 won British Columbia in November. He scored a double victory in June 1934, winning from the Conservatives on that day both Saskatchewan and Ontario, whose new Liberal provincial Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn bounded to notoriety as a Canadian Huey Long. This June the Liberals captured New Brunswick, and last week they swept Prince Edward Island, leaving not a single province in all Canada governed by Conservatives...
Died. Walter Williams, 71, onetime (1931-34) president of University of Missouri, founder & longtime dean of its pioneer School of Journalism; in Columbia...
About the same age as the huntsmen is observant Varian Fry (Harvard '30), recently chosen to become editor of the Living Age and now in Europe on a "study tour" to fit him for the job and get him a Ph.D. from Columbia. Reported Living Age's Fry: "I saw one man brutally kicked and spat on as he lay on the side walk, a woman was bleeding, a dirty tear-stained face, a man whose head was covered with blood, hysterical women crying, men losing their temper at the police or the Storm Troopers being kicked...
Embarking at Annapolis on the Sequoia, the President was accompanied by Senator Robinson, Postmaster General Farley, Speaker Byrns, Vice President Garner. After an afternoon's fishing in the Bay they went ashore at Jefferson Islands, later to find almost every good Democrat in the District of Columbia on hand for an old fashioned political get-together...
...given the job of supervising all manuscripts which came into Columbia Pictures Corp. But that sort of job does not last long in Hollywood, particularly if the incumbent is an electric personality given to quick cigarets and quicker decisions. From Columbia he moved to Fox, from Fox to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Then he went back to the publishing business for a while, becoming editor of Photoplay, and recently "Western editor" of Liberty. The unhappy, pouched eyes of Ray Long grew unhappier. Panic-stricken, the man who once could command $100,000 a year and almost any editor's chair...