Word: columning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party had been vegetating since early July. Many Republicans had worked themselves into such a frenzy against Eisenhower that to vote for him seemed like embracing the devil. For days the "I Won't Vote" letters were stacked row on row in the letters to the editor column of the Tribune--as many as forty each issue. Others, who would not neglect their franchise, agreed with the lady who wrote the Tribune...
...night editor tries to send the copy down to be set in type as soon as possible. He edits all copy including the Notice Column and the Associated Press news, which streams in steadily all evening from the teletype. Sometime around 2:30 a.m. the might editor and his proofer go out for a last cup of coffee, while the press rolls out 4500 copies of Cambridge's only breakfast daily...
...Washington last week the curtain rang down on a Sunday Meet the Press television show featuring the Republican vice presidential nominee, California's Senator Richard Nixon. After the show, Columnist Peter Edson, an old Washington hand who writes a column for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, approached Nixon. There had been a story "kicking around" ever since the Chicago convention, said Edson, to the effect that Nixon was getting financial assistance from a special fund set up by a group of wealthy Californians. Well, Nixon replied, the truth wasn't quite that way, but Edson could...
...Committee has established headquarters in the Touraine Hotel in Boston, A branch of the National Volunteers for Stevenson in Chicago, the committee's purpose is to pull the independent and nominally Republican vote into the Governor's column in the November elections Both the Harvard Democratic Club and the Harvard Liberal Union will work for Stevenson under the Volunteers...
...Times, which is supporting Eisenhower, brushed off the charges as politics. Asked Akers: "Why . . . the long delay? Could [it] be the consequence of the fact that the Sun-Times ceased its support of the present administration in the interval?" Added a taunting headline in the paper's editorial column: TO ADLAI: WE STILL LIKE...