Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt told of a family party at the White House to celebrate her birthday, wrote about "a gentleman coming in to do some work" who later "played dance music for us." Since Mrs. Roosevelt's birthday party took place the night before the fireside chat. Columnist Westbrook Pegler acidly inquired...
Awarded. To Mrs. Drew Pearson, wife of the Washington columnist; exclusive custody and care of Tyler Abell, 5, her son by her first husband, Washington Journal ist George Abell; in Reno, Nev. In August Mr. & Mrs. Pearson pursued George and Tyler Abell to the Island of Sark, in the English Channel, "kidnapped" Tyler. The court held that George Abell forfeited custody of Tyler by violating a previous Nevada decree forbidding him to take Tyler...
Opposition there was from diverse sources: from the Wall Street Journal which front-paged an editorial "Stop Foreign Meddling; America Wants Peace;" from World Peaceways and five other passive-peace organizations; from Senator Gerald P. Nye, sponsor of Neutrality legislation; from Columnist Hugh Johnson who wrote: "Well, here we are again, taking sides in a War." It appeared, however, working with the most popular member of his Cabinet, the President had, at least for the time being, once more won political support from many whom he had alienated. Besides putting the bothersome question of Justice Hugo Black...
...eight years the U. S. Government has been struggling to solve the problem of unemployment but not until last summer did Congress act to find out how many-people in the U. S. are unemployed. Columnist Hugh Johnson suggested a compulsory registration along the lines of the World War draft. Massachusetts' young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. proposed a $20,000,000 door-to-door census. In the rush of legislation at its session's end, Congress passed a bill which called for an unemployment census, appropriated $5,000,000 and left the kind...
Three years ago the arch-Republican Philadelphia Inquirer would not have printed a column by General Johnson if he had been the last columnist on Earth. In fact, until the General's belligerent attitude toward publishers while NRAd-ministrator had been forgotten, United Feature salesmen did not have too much success selling his column in the newspaper offices they solicited. In the past 60 days, however, as the Johnson bombardment of the Administration has grown to Alcazar proportions, United Feature salesmen have been able to add 13 papers to the General's string. This does not remotely approach...