Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, June 15, ". . . tapping the valuable support of 500,000 workers." I passed that by with a soft moan, and then in column 3, same page, I read: ". . . Lewis shook up a few metaphors and replied." Back I went to column 1, this time with a real moan. May I hear from your support-tapping expert...
John Hamilton's reports by telephone got better and better. Like an oil drill going down, the column of Landon delegates continued steadily up. To the 388 lined up by Monday were added most of New York's 90. Then 50 of Pennsylvania's 75. That clinched it-unless the rig should go haywire before the actual balloting. Alf Landon permitted himself to josh Harry Woodring, his Democratic predecessor as Governor, now Assistant Secretary of War, who had bet against Landon's luck. "Well, Harry," he said, "I'll invite you to dinner...
...Prince von Starhemberg were there, if his private guard would be drilling or if there would only be the usual caretakers on the grounds. Thus forewarned, a couple of busloads of green-coated Heimwehr hustled out to Waxenberg, hid in the new wing of the castle. About midnight a column of automobiles drew near the grounds. Out tumbled 50 apple-cheeked young Nazis who began tiptoeing toward the castle. Heimwehrmen swarmed out like bees. There was a rattle of shots. The Nazis withdrew, leaving two of their band dead on the ground...
...dined for several generations. Later he was to feel disgusted with the vague socialism of his close friend Walter Lippmann, and to turn resolutely away from his companion Robert E. Rogers, who had implanted himself solidly on the side of the order that is, and now writes a column for the Boston Evening American. He was to go beyond the teachings of his liberal mentor Lincoln Steffens and to stop writing to his beloved Charles Townsend Copeland because correspondence with a radical was dangerous business in the war years. He bore the seeds of a conviction and as that conviction...
Most notable visitors of the week were those whom Mrs. Roosevelt entertained on the South Lawn after the President departed on his week end yachting trip on the Potomac on the Potomac. Fortnight ago Mrs. Roosevelt, in her syndicated newspaper column, told of her visit to the National Training School for Girls, the District of Columbia's lock-up for female delinquents. Dr. Carrie Weaver Smith, new superintendent who recently induced Congress to appropriate $100,000 for the School, also induced Mrs. Roosevelt to visit it. In My Day, the First Lady wrote...