Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortified Guam. He simply conferred with Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee, let that gentleman introduce a bill authorizing $5,000,000 to dredge the harbor at Apra, make the island usable for planes. His real purpose was clarified by his secretariat, which approvingly referred to Columnist Walter Lippmann: "Congress should authorize the fortification of Guam, and then the State Department should invite the Japanese to discuss the question." (A U. S. threat to fortify Guam helped to win Japan's agreement to the 5-5-3 naval ratio and the stipulation against further fortifications...
Heywood Broun 10, nationally known columnist and president of the American Newspaper Guild will be master of ceremonies. Governor Saltonstall, Governor Murphy of New Hampshire, and Mayor Tobin of Boston are a few of the political figures who have made their reservations...
...Long Island, about 70 miles from Franklin Roosevelt's Hyde Park. *In Miami last week, Columnist Walter Winchell quoted vacationing Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy to the effect that Charles Lindbergh passed on his gleanings to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at the instance of Mr. Kennedy; not, as previously reported, through or at the request of Nancy Astor's "Cliveden...
...fact that his great-grandfather John and two brothers started the first newspaper in the Republic of Texas, ran it until the Mexican General Santa Anna destroyed their press. Last week Gail Borden recalled this bit of family history when he was lifted out of his congenial niche as columnist and drama critic of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times and made managing editor to succeed Lou Ruppel, who resigned last month (TIME...
...must be difficult to pontificate on the daily happenings of this hectic would and one sympathizes with the columnist's tendency to formularize. But when the keynote speech of the head of the Democratic party is "simplified" into a Republican tract, the time has come to warn the ingenuous author that the reading public draws the line somewhere...