Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholars had no reason to complain of lack of public attention. Scripps-Howard's glib Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote two pieces about what he referred to as "Highbrows' Old Home Week." A new extension of geometry which made it appear that the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts (see below) served as a pat allusion for an editorial writer commenting on the cordial meeting between Alf Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty...
...Said Columnist Hugh S. Johnson: "Such a move would be in accord with the President's high idealism but ... we could not possibly enter another of these colossal games of international strip poker without losing something." Said Columnist Dorothy Thompson: "Some of [the President's] weaknesses are again revealed: lack of realism and often faulty judgment ... a tendency to wishful thinking and a belief that saying something persuasively enough might make...
Early last week dispatches from a vacation spot in Colorado began to rustle through the becalmed leaves of the nation's Press. These remote stirrings indicated that an answer would soon be forthcoming for Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who last week treated his Scripps-Howard readers to the following sarcasm...
Equally caustic were other newshawks' comments. Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper: "So far as the White House reporters can learn officially there is no political campaign on, or if there is, Mr. Roosevelt isn't running for office...
PEOPLE, PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!-R. H. (Bob) Davis-Stokes ($3). Travel notes of a columnist that range from brief impressions written in Mexico and South Africa to scribblings in an airplane over California, and include anecdotes about Artemus Ward, discussions of the Regency of George IV and English rule of India...