Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcements of impending events in the world of music and the dance, advance information on programmatic matters and other available tid-bits of aesthetic interest will be the weekly fare of this budding column. It will endeavor to present, honestly and with decorum, such advance "dope" as it hopes will interest local devotees of Music...
...Boston the Herald's Edson Bernard Smith is the city's leading financial editor, writing a daily signed-and-boxed column called "The Investor." Son of the Herald's onetime political editor, he has been on that daily ever since he graduated from Harvard (Class of 1909) except for War-time service in the Air Corps. Close to the best news sources in a city that makes considerable financial news, Editor Smith often in demand as a speaker and lecturer. Probably read in more corners of the earth than any other U. S. financial editor...
...Memphis Commercial Appeal George Williamson's cotton column is a signed department. Bylines also go to Oil Editor Claude V. Barrow of the Daily Oklahoman and the Dallas Morning News Oil Editor North Bigbee, whose column ot bristling jargon is incomprehensible to anyone except an oilman. The Milwaukee Journal's financial editor is Gustave Pabst Jr., son of the brewing house that helped to make Milwaukee famous...
Editor Shively always has a few stock subjects which he whips unmercifully up & down his column on the slightest provocation. Jesse Jones' slow ticker service and the Administration's silver policy are current favorites. He seldom passes up a chance to hop on fatuous statements, particularly those in brokers' market letters. Great was the glee of Hard-money-man Shively when he spotted a Treasury statement in which "lawful money" erroneously appeared as "awful money." Another typical Shively item appearing last December: "The latest issue (July) of the illustrated monthly magazine, U. S. S. R. in Construction...
...Evening American. He was the first Chicago editor to treat the Board of Trade not as a privileged private club but as a public institution susceptible of improvement. With Royal Munger he was viewing the Insull empire with quiet alarm two years before it fell. In his column called "VANDERPOEL" he is usually to be found in any economic corner except the popular one. One of his punching bags currently is the general theory that real Recovery waits on a revival of heavy industry...