Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government functions affecting aviation. All but fanatical on the subject of national defense, he preached the gospel of Col. William ("Billy") Mitchell. Last year he hired Major General James Edmond Fechet, retired head of the Army Air Corps, as "national defense editor" of Aero Digest. In his editorial column "Air?Hot & Otherwise" Publisher Tichenor consistently baits Senator Hiram Bingham, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the National Aeronautic Association, occasionally the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. He has been known to take a revolver (empty) from a drawer and lay it on his desk while interviewing truculent callers...
When Scripps-Howard established the five-column Washington News ten years ago the publishers had no squeamishness about having the sheet called a "tabloid." Only because of the Manhattan Daily News and Boston Record did the U. S. reading public know that such things as condensed newspapers existed. But in the ensuing decade the tabloids of Hearst, Macfadden, Patterson & McCormick performed startling exploits, created for the word "tabloid'' a special meaning of loudness, blatancy, sexationalism...
Among the features of the sheet are "Seth's Column," "Junie's Column," "Tid-Bits," "George's Column," a cut of the sons of 1907, reports of the various reunion committees, and a calendar of extract from the CRIMSON of 1904-05, reminding the members of the class of events which occurred during their Freshman year...
TIME of May 16 had a very interesting column under the caption "Locusts." However it would have been more interesting if its details had been free from error. Luther Steward, not Stewart, is President of the National Federation of Federal Employees and as its spokesman represents more than 65,000 organized "Federal Employees." . . . Again in the same "Locusts" column John not Joseph Simpson is president of that very fine Farmers Union...
Whether it will strengthen the Club's position in other ways is more doubtful. Harvard, of all places, is probably the last where a substantial number of students can be brought to join in any radical program. The opinions expressed in the letter printed in an adjacent column of the CRIMSON will probably be endorsed by those who have been interested in, though not members, of the Liberal Club. It presents clearly the case against the Club's decision...