Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Lippmann '10, overseer of the University, noted columnist, eminent commentator on world affairs, is to be the guest at the next Winthrop House dinner, to be held on Thursday, May 17, and the speaker in the Senior Common Room afterwards. The subject on which he is planning to talk has not been announced...
Remote control by radio of ships, automobiles, airplanes furnished with power of their own is becoming commonplace. A vastly different thing is transmission of power by radio, an old dream of famed inventor Nikola Tesla and a favorite preoccupation of Columnist Arthur Brisbane. Westinghouse engineers who have long worked on the problem were able last summer at Chicago's Century of Progress to operate a tiny fan requiring two or three watts by shooting a beam of short radio waves toward a parabolic reflector which focused on a small antenna. Scientists doubted last week that Mr. Gregory...
...that the people of Hawaii are being imposed upon when their homeland is called a "possession." It is legally and historically "an integral part of the United States." As a sovereign and independent nation, the Republic of Hawaii joined itself to the United States in 1898. As a Honolulu columnist once said, Hawaii owns the United States just as much as the United States owns Hawaii. Even the island school children feel disgusted when some American minor statesman starts showing himself sufficiently uninformed to consider Hawaii a "possession." "It's a pity," say the school children, "that there aren...
Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week chose, as subject of one of his most sardonic pieces, Philadelphia Turfman Joseph Early Widener. Excerpts...
Walter Lippmann '10, prominent author and columnist, will deliver a series of public lectures given under the Godkin Foundation, it was learned late yesterday. Mr. Lippmann, who is now on vacation in Florida, will be unable to come to Harvard until after the April recess...