Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, District WPAdministrator Brehon Burke Somervell, like his chief in Washington a West Pointer (lieutenant colonel), retorted with equal heat: "You can't strike against relief! It's fantastic!" (Columnist Arthur ("Bugs") Baer cracked: "Mutiny on the bounty.") He threatened arrest for anyone who sought to deprive others of WPA's benefits. He filled gaps in WPA's skilled ranks with qualified applicants from the city's home-relief lists, and by shifting skilled non-unionists from project to project. At the unionists he snorted: "If they'd all quit...
...Columnist Heywood ("It Seems to Me") Broun, variously described as a great idealist and a one-man slum, said he would run for Congress on the Democratic ticket in Fairfield County, Conn...
...Pressagent-Columnist Philip Pearl wrote in its Weekly News Service: ". . . BEWARE THE KISS OF DEATH OF THE C. I. O. . . . Is it possible the C. I. O. is out to promote the interests of the A. F. of L.? ... They know they can't get anywhere on their own and they are anxious to gain shelter from public wrath behind the established reputation of the A. F. of L. . . . And the next thing you know, the C. I. O. press and the Communist press are . . . trying to make the public and Congress believe the A. F. of L. rank...
...swank, fox-hunting Warrenton, Va., Washington Society Columnist Count Igor Cassini (grandson of the late Tsarist Ambassador to the U. S. Count Arthur Cassini) was lured from a country-club dance, tarred & feathered by five aristobrats. Arrested next day were Ian and Colin Montgomery, Alexander Calvert. Reported the Count: "I recognized Ian Montgomery and asked him, 'Why are you doing this to me?' He said I had written in my column that his mother was invited to the reception for the King and Queen of England and that his father had not been invited...
...opening night, reported wide-awake Columnist Leonard Lyons, a woman who in pre-Nazi Vienna would have merited the Royal Box sat all alone in the balcony: Mrs. Arthur Schnitzler, the refugee widow of Austria's most famous playwright...