Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found in Dave Shean, an outfielder who hasn't toed the stab since his days on the Yardling nine two years ago, someone to share the mound burden with Ed Ingalls. Until Shean was discovered a week ago, Ingalls has won the only games credited to the Crimson victory column. Although Shean has successfully held Brown and Northeastern in check, it is doubtful if his slow ball will baffle the hard hitting batters of the Yale and Dartmouth nines...
There, side by side, in columns headed "Shaw Says:" and "Ford Says:" they had their daily say. They addressed each other as "my friend next door," "my fellow columnist." Candidate Ford had need of more ingenuity than his opponent in conducting his column. Not being the incumbent, he could not fill space by telling how he helped perform such municipal miracles as supplying "230 million gallons of pure water" daily to Los Angeles. Columnist Ford frequently ended each column with a direct question. Sample...
...Jersey Democrats would like to break up Mayor Bradway's Republican machine and get Cape May County back into the Democratic column. Last winter Democratic Senators protested the seating of Cape May County's Senator-elect William C. Hunt on the grounds that votes had been fraudulently switched to him by Wildwood Republicans. So tense was this situation that U. S. Senator-elect William Henry Smathers remained for three months in his old seat in the State Senate, divided 11 to 10 between the parties, to help balance Senator-suspect Hunt. During the investigation, Mayor Bradway...
Observed in proper legal form in Baltimore last week were stockholders' meetings in two spinal column holding companies of the erstwhile $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire, Alleghany Corp. and Chesapeake Corp. Proxies prosaically were cast to elect as directors the new controlling interests in Alleghany Corp. At the same time in Manhattan, Stockbrokers Robert Ralph Young and Frank Frederick Kolbe were sitting down with George A. Ball to complete the transaction by which the 74-year-old Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar manufacturer stepped down as the dominant figure in the Van Sweringen picture...
Among post-NRA expedients of the Administration which make Hugh Samuel Johnson hot under the collar is the undistributed profits tax. Wrote General Johnson in his Scripps-Howard column last month: "I know a small company that was started with adequate capital in 1929. The crash hit it just as it was getting under way. By some miracle of management it was kept alive through the long valley of the shadow of industrial death from 1929 to 1935. ... In 1936 for the first time it made money—enough money to pay off its debts...