Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contributions account of Representative David J. Lewis for his unsuccessful campaign to purge Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, last week revealed sums totaling $17,282 from Liberal Columnist Drew Pearson ("Washington Merry-Go-Round") and his two sisters, Mrs. Barbara Lange of Palo Alto, Calif, and Mrs. Ellen Fogg of Moylan, Pa. One possible explanation of Columnist Pearson's dislike for Senator Tydings: they once courted the same girl, Eleanor Davies Cheeseborough (now Mrs. Tydings...
...Between Columnists James Westbrook Pegler and Heywood Campbell Broun there had long existed a somewhat strained out-of-print friendship. In print, "Old Peg," ever scornful of anything that looks like uplift, called his friend "old Bleeding Heart Broun," "the fat Mahatma." Two months ago, Columnist Pegler jabbed a particularly tender spot. American Newspaper Guild President Broun was operating a scab shop, he wrote, because the Connecticut Nutmeg, of which Broun is one-tenth owner-editor, had hired a non-union reporter. Next week, from his regular page in the New Republic, President Broun heatedly denied he had anything...
...Columnist Pegler's standing with the Doubledome Babbitts has shifted often. They have never forgiven him for an early column in which he indirectly justified lynchings in San José, Calif. But two years ago, when he went to Europe and wrote a series of searing attacks on Hitler and Mussolini, his standing was ace high. They deplored his sneers at "Mahatma" Sinclair and his "Brainstorm Trust," reveled in his fury at Huey Long, cooled off again when he began taunting the New Deal about the "Second Louisiana Purchase." Today, "Old Peg" is in bad odor among the intellectuals...
People whose daily diet is strychnine retch at Cindy Lou's syrup. Her magnolia-bud ways with men make women who get their guys through manhole methods rage. Swiftly the whole house-party gangs up on her. Then Cindy Lou hits the roof, butts a fat columnist (John Alexander) in the belly, gives the crowd a 100-stripe tongue-lashing, spoils everybody's fun, cooks everybody's goose, flashes a revolver, and winds up with as much loot in Connecticut as Sherman's men got out of Georgia...
Dorothy Thompson (Mon. 9 p. m., NBC-Red). No. 1 feminine political columnist speaks. Phil Spitalny's No. 1 feminine dance orchestra plays...