Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital, Edward Lawford, brother of Actress Betty Lawford (The Women), brought Hearst Sports Columnist Martene W, ("Bill") Corum with flesh wounds in his left hip and both legs. Columnist Corum said he had been hit by a stray bullet while walking along Madison Avenue. When police continued to question him, it came out that he had been with Ruth Lamar (divorced wife of Banker Robert Lehman) at the Stork Club, where a quarrel with Lawford started, that he had taken Miss Lamar to her Park Avenue apartment, where Lawford shot him. Wrote Corum...
There, side by side, in columns headed "Shaw Says:" and "Ford Says:" they had their daily say. They addressed each other as "my friend next door," "my fellow columnist." Candidate Ford had need of more ingenuity than his opponent in conducting his column. Not being the incumbent, he could not fill space by telling how he helped perform such municipal miracles as supplying "230 million gallons of pure water" daily to Los Angeles. Columnist Ford frequently ended each column with a direct question. Sample...
...Wrote Columnist Shaw after Columnist Ford had chided him for having a great amount of billboard space and literature donated by friends: "Perhaps I do have more literature than you, more billboards, more radio time. Perhaps I have more friends." Columnist Ford had his harshest words with his fellow columnist when a batch of obviously faked circulars bearing a red hammer & sickle and purporting to be an official Communist endorsement of Candidate Ford were dropped on the city from an airplane...
...monopoly. The willingness of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to sell Germany enough helium to fly the Graf and the Hindenburg on peaceful missions was offset by the price factor (more than 30 times as expensive, for 20% less payload efficiency) and by covert political opposition. As Columnist Dorothy Thompson wrote: "The destruction of the Hindenburg was an act of sabotage. For the peaceful world today, the world that seeks to join hands in the perfection of greater technologies, that seeks mutual enrichment and mutual understanding by all means of physical, intellectual and spiritual intercourse, is, indeed, being sabotaged...
Highlight of Saturday's meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs at In dianapolis was a speech made by Walter Lippmann '10, Overseer and noted columnist, in which he criticized the present administration for encouraging the spirit of class warfare...