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Word: columnist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes's (and far more normal habits), he could talk international finance with Morgan partners, politics with Presidents, and seem much more like a reassuring expounder of broad issues than a practical political dopester. But last week genteel Columnist Waiter Lippmann solved a mystery that had baffled some of the keenest political detectives in the U. S. It was the Mystery of the Third Term, or Will President Roosevelt Run Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: The Deductive Method | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Boston Record and the Boston American all this fall have been head being authoritative statements that Harvard will resign and return to Maryland. Economically it was Austin Lake, veteran Boston American Columnist, who has head linesman in the stadium today. Posters along Soldiers Field fluttered to the chill Allston winds the fact that a Boston paper will publish tomorrow an article by Lake on how college football players are doped before big names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time Out | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

Victor. Only national figure to emerge from the California election was Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Fortnight ago the ex-sports writer landed in Los Angeles and began sending out appalled columns: "This community lives under ether and utters weird cries in its waking dreams." Westbrook Pegler was alarmed, not because a proposed Ham & Eggs amendment to the State Constitution promised $30 every Thursday to retired citizens over 50 years of age, not because it would have compelled the Governor to name a leader of Ham & Eggs to administer the act, not because it would set up a State bank system with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: North, South, East, West | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...almost seven years Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been pretty much his own Secretary of the Navy. Last week Columnist Raymond Clapper chided him for being his own Secretary of State. And last week the President himself stepped out in front as his own Secretary of something like Military Economics. At press conference he laid down a new theory: the U. S. ought to have a Pacific coast steel industry. His arguments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Westward Ho! | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...collected over $7,000. Then William Edmund Scripps, president of the Detroit News Corporation, decided to take a hand. He pointed out that with $1,000 a month in donations it would still take eight more years to raise enough. "Make them be business-like," he told his domestic columnist. Said Nancy: "They won't be businesslike. It's not that kind of a column." Nevertheless, she asked them to stop-and money still came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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