Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your magazine deserves everything good which has been said of it. BUT-you have certainly fallen off a bit in this week's issue. Imagine a grown-up magazine devoting a whole column to ''finger counting"-the lowest form of human amusement. Incredible! What if Senor Calles' baby appeared rather suddenly-what if a flock of ''old ladies of both sexes" write you about it-aren't you BIG enough to say nothing? Grow up! FRANK J. TONIS...
...Church Monthly (Episcopal) disclosed that Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, good Episcopalian, had cribbed most of his 1930 Thanksgiving Day proclamation from the Protestant Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. The Governor's proclamation which had at the time been highly praised by Protestant and Catholic clergy declared (left-hand column): "Let the people . . . . . . . pray to Almighty God who has given us this good land for our heritage that we may prove ourselves" a "people mindful of His favor and glad to do His will ; that He may bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning and pure manners, that...
Perhaps the greatest Hearst reporter was Arthur Brisbane. He has climbed up his ladder-like column of daily aphorisms to Journalism's highest wage: $250,000 yearly. He pontificates. He used to tell people not to sell the country short, and will again. As from Olympus he answered in his column, Today, Editrix Patterson's question about interviewing nudes...
...there appeared in your column a letter which deplored the frequent riots in the subway trains and advocated swift and severe punishment as the only cure...
...your Jan. 5 issue, I was interested to read in your column headed "Miscellany" the unique way in which The Joanne Eloise, latest 1930 Model from Detroit, "The Motor City," was announced to the world...