Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Returning to his column in the New York Herald Tribune after a two-month vacation, Pundit Lippmann, long one of the President's most sympathetic critics, flatly announced: "I am going to vote for Governor Landon." His reason: There are no great issues between the two Parties. Both accept what the Supreme Court has left of the New Deal. But whereas President Roosevelt has unnecessarily alienated the support of Business and established a personal and factional government, Governor Landon, if elected, will be checked by a Democratic Senate, hence forced to constitute a Government of "national union" such...
...Procession will be led by Chief Marshal Charles Francis Adams '88 and Deputy Chief Marshal Joseph Rochemont Hamlen '04, assisted by seven Aides and over 100 Class Marshals. A Marshal for each Class and School will carry the banner at the head of his column. The procession will enter the East Yard at 9.45 o'clock...
Occasionally with a first edition deadline approaching, a reporter would get a little panicky and send in a story which he hadn't fully digested and toned down to the correct level. One reporter on a Boston paper sent in a column of involved technicalities, featured by a formula containing a number of "n'a", "x'a", and "y's". The first edition carried the story, but it was rewritten for succeeding editions after the city editor had called up and asked, "Say, what the hell is this stuff, anyway. We don't know what it means...
...imported to Rockland County, handed a skull and other bones found on Cheesecock Mountain and asked to solve the mystery of its presence there. Sterilizing the skull, he placed it on an artificial neck made out of a curtain pole shaved down to fit the opening of the spinal column. Inside the skull on either side of the pole, he wedged two radio tubes to hold the head steady. The other end of the pole he fitted in a stand made of a soap...
...Mary Belle eloped from her home in suburban Chicago Heights to La Porte, Ind. with a 6-ft. 4 in., 21-year-old, 200-lb. onetime high-school athlete named J. Edward Wright. When this news was announced by Mrs. Spencer, the Hearstian Evening American gave it an eight-column, front-page streamer headline. Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News front-paged the story with a two-column picture of the bride. The tabloid Times devoted its entire front page to Mary Belle, followed up inside with strips of pictures, additional copy...