Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Hull and his "career boys" had been violating the neutrality law by allowing shipments of arms to Germany. Reason: The Neutrality Act prohibits arms shipments "in violation of a treaty" and the 1921 peace treaty specifically prohibits "importation into Germany of arms, munitions and war materials." That day, Columnist Drew Pearson, co-author of the Merry-Go-Round, attended a State Department press conference at which his column instantly became the main topic of discussion...
Secretary Hull began by rebutting Columnist Pearson on the ground that though Germany might be violating the peace treaty by importing arms, the U. S. was not violating it by selling them to her. This left open the point of whether or not the shipments were still "in violation" of a treaty to which the U. S. was a party. Obviously, it would never do for the Secretary of State to admit that his Government, in however small a detail, * had actually committed a technical breach of a treaty, and Mr. Hull did not do so. Instead, he launched into...
Favorite college story of tabloid editors is the one called "Sex Orgies." This week two women journalists expanded the story into a book, * called it a report on "the sex mores of our younger generation." Dorothy Dunbar Bromley is a columnist for Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, Florence Haxton Britten a former staff member of the New Republic and Hearst's International. To find out what U. S. youth thinks and does about Sex, these two married women interviewed and probed with questionnaires 1,364 men & women students in 46 colleges and universities. They avoided...
...Says he: "I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour-and the more frightened I get, the faster I go." At Sneden's Landing-20 miles from Times Square across the Hudson-Welles has for neighbors Katharine Cornell, Columnist Dorothy Thompson ("whom I do not admire"). Welles met his wife, dainty, blonde Virginia Nicolson Welles, while both were acting in a summer drama festival in 1934, married her that fall. Last month their first child was born. A girl, she was christened Christopher...
Lapham, a resident of Levereett House and a member of the Hasty Pudding and Phoenix SK clubs, was pointed out by the columnist as being one of the forerunners of the new vogue in dinner jackets because his contained brilliant maroon lapels...