Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stanch individual in the Popular Front was Columnist Heywood Broun, whose American Newspaper Guild was well up front. Last week Heywood Broun recorded his anguish: ". . . The Soviet has here and now contributed to the might and menace of Hitler. . . . Fascism is still deadly, but the popular front now becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible. . . . The masquerade is over. The dominoes are dropped and it now becomes possible to look at the faces of the various ones who pretend to be devoted to the maintenance of democracy...
...story of how G-Man Hoover caught Lepke did not come out until 24 hours later, and then it was a clean scoop for the Daily Mirror's, Columnist Walter Winchell, who dearly loves to play cops. One night about three weeks ago a mysterious voice hissed to Winchell over the telephone: "Lepke wants to come...
...worse, for war normally reduces cotton exports. The only means now available for reducing the huge cotton surplus is the use of $50,000,000 appropriated by Congress for export subsidies (with its aid Henry Wallace wishfully hopes to get exports back to 6,000,000 bales). Last week Columnist Hugh Johnson roared...
Omitted from their roster by his own desire-although it was announced that the committee would consult him-was aging, ailing Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch, who set up and headed the 1918 War Industries Board. Mr. Baruch's friend and Wartime coworker, Columnist Hugh S. Johnson, who months ago was ruled out of rearmament councils, called this "bumptious folly." Omitted from the official announcement was any explanation of the speed with which Mr. Stettinius, et al. were picked. Plans for allocating U. S. production could be almost as useful to warring friends of the U. S. as to warring...
...Rumpled Columnist Heywood Broun, 50, who is always at odds with his editors, reported in his syndicated daily comment It Seems To Me that he had had a conversation with Nudancer Sally Rand. She confronted him with: "I always say it is an evil thing for anybody to speak ill of his employer. Don't you agree with me, Mr. Broun?" Said he: "This took me somewhat by surprise, for it is a notion to which I have given little thought one way or another. And since my mind was not made up, I gave an evasive answer...