Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting my information from some oi our State papers which make the claim that North Carolina has the largest tobacco market in the U. S., and produces more tobacco than any other state. This information is printed on the front page while the editorial page is devoted to a column "cussing out" the manufacturers of tobacco produced and sold in North Carolina and the inside of the paper is filled with enormous advertisements paid for by these manufacturers-all in the same day. But this hasn't anything to do with North Carolina having the largest tobacco market...
Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, who has never touched tobacco but who as a youngster delighted the late Charles Anderson Dana by recognizing Cháteau Yquem by taste, made his first visit to one of Manhattan's 50,000 speakeasies, found in it material for a half-column description. Excerpts: ''It is one o'clock in the day and somewhat surprised you see every seat occupied, practically all of them by young girls, chatting with the bartenders, taking cocktails or 'absinthe drip,' if you know what that is.* Some experienced, with mucous membranes well seasoned...
...imperative that the whole format be altered. Bold-face headlines by Hearst, brilliant quips by the staff of Time and of the New Yorker, light talks by Bruce Barton, and sketches by Peter Arno would all help put the "Record" on the newsstands. And finally a Dorothy Dix column would minister to the heart of gold that beats beneath the rough senatorial exterior...
...liquor traffic, he becomes at least deserving of notice in the news. Yesterday showed that if he can acquire a nickname, be twenty-three times arrested in vain, and attain a certain facility in absorbing and dodging lead, he may be judged worthy of even top-column notice in Boston's most conservative paper...
...editorial reprinted from the Exonian in an adjoining column is significant in two respects. In the first place if commends the effort of the new plan to give the individual more contacts. Secondly it claims auccean for the smaller classes and the increase in discussion which the Harkness fund has made possible...