Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deficits. Last week, he celebrated the anniversary of his entry into the Fourth Estate by announcing the acquisition of the foreign news service and 14 features from the New York Herald Tribune, including Walter Lippmann, Dorothy Thompson, Mark Sullivan, Book Reviewer Lewis Garnett, Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr., Sports Columnist Richards Vidmer and the impeccable Lucius Beebe, to whom Washington dress is "a little like country folks in sports clothes...
...American Newspaper Guild has known but one President: Scripps-Howard's mussy, curly-headed Columnist Heywood Broun. Hunched over a table like a rising half moon, Chairman Broun always sits when he presides over Guild conventions. After five conventions, Sitting Broun remains a good-natured, efficient chairman. Last week he was reelected by affectionate acclamation, but with little affection Executive Vice-President Jonathan Eddy was re-elected after two ballots...
MURDER MAKES A MERRY WIDOW- Robert George Dean-Crime Club ($2). Two private detectives solve the murder of a Midwest newspaper columnist, who in his spare time dabbles in blackmail. Plot: ingenious. Action: swift. Unless a reader is tired of the tough, hard-drinking detectives, a good buy or borrow...
...there are no jobs, drew a dismal picture of the world. Said New York University's Class Orator Paul H. Kahan: "The boys are prepared to lay down their caps and gowns and accept the pick and shovel of the WPA, if necessary. . . ." At all this Scripps-Howard Columnist Hugh S. Johnson stormed: "The present fashion of going around this nation telling people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore what their government ought to do and is going to do for them is ... a contemptible kind...
...refused, she produced a horsewhip, thrashed him soundly in the lobby of his swank Manhattan office building. In 1928 she died, and Elisha sent his daughter, Audrey Bridget, to live with his parents while he gradually began to succeed as a detective story writer for pulp magazines and newspaper columnist under a pen name...