Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That tore it. A News Chronicle columnist said that the Economist "accurately expresses the thoughts of millions of ordinary Britons." Two weighty sobersides, the Yorkshire Post (owned by relatives of Anthony Eden's wife) and the London Times turned their thunders on hitherto sacrosanct Franklin Roosevelt, roared that it was time for the U.S. to state its policies and define its world responsibilities. (After the President's message to Congress, the Times applauded.) Editor Crowther, whose first outburst had been marked by well-reasoned rage, came up again with an ill-timed, ill-natured, ill-reasoned diatribe against...
Franklin Roosevelt, who recently described columnists as unnecessary excrescences, turned out to be a onetime excrescence himself. The fact was jubilantly reported last week by the New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, who mortally hates Mr. Roosevelt and delights in being high on the list of the President's journalistic dislikes...
...Lesson in Morals." New Dealing Columnist Lowell Mellett, a devotee of the hit-me-harder school, thought OPA's Sunday punch a disguised blessing: "I believe we have been given the one Christmas present we've wanted most-an increased sense of participation. . . . We not only want to do more, we want to be made to do more. We want, in fact, to be regimented-regimented much further into the war effort." But the New York Sun's George E. Sokolsky probably echoed many an embattled housewife, who was willing to be rationed, but wanted the rationing...
Fishy things seemed to be happening at the Canadian ends of Detroit's traffic links to the Dominion-the Windsor Fleetway Tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge. Windsor Star Columnist R. M. Harrison investigated, came away breathing hard. In righteous wrath next day he exposed some sleazy maneuverings by gas-hungry U.S. citizens...
...Manhattan, New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that in California a psychiatric patient was asked if he were Napoleon. He craftily said "No." A lie detector showed he was lying...