Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading your article on Allentown, Pa. Call's Columnist Pumpernickle Bill, I realized that excepting the novels of Helen Martin and Elsie Singmaster, little or no attention has been paid to the peculiar Pennsylvania "Dutch" (or German...
Last week Mrs. Ferguson learned how a son feels about having a columnist in the family. Benton Ferguson, now 27, in the advertising department of Scripps-Howard's Fort Worth Press, wrote for his paper an intimate sketch of his mother which ran alongside her column...
When a London gossip writer mentioned Columnist Dorothy Thompson for the Presidency, newshawks scurried to get her reaction. "Ridiculous," she pooh-poohed. "I'm very much for it," declared Husband Sinclair Lewis, "then I can syndicate a column called...
...inspection reveals a few recognizable proper names and some German-sounding words, but all set in English characters. The column carries the head Pumpernickle Bill, with a small drawing of a hayseedy fellow with stringy beard, corncob pipe, pencil behind ear. But no hayseed or pie-eyed compositor is Columnist Pumpernickle Bill. He is serious-minded William Stahley Troxell, 44, an ex-school teacher, now probably the most loved and certainly the best known man around Allentown...
Meanwhile, Guild members were boring from within. Pundit Walter Lippmann, New York Herald Tribune columnist, wrote a letter to the Guild refusing to pay his dues because he would not commit himself to political opinions adopted by them. New York Guild Secretary Milton Kaufman attempted to straighten him out with the assurance that "individual members of the Guild are no more committed to resolutions of this character than are editorial employes of the Herald Tribune committed to the editorial policy" of that paper. In Seattle 40 Guild members on the Post-Intelligencer, whose publisher is President Roosevelt...