Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columnist Michael Foot, Laborite M.P., said that "American political ideology really is about 30 years behind Europe," saw a "whirlwind brewing on the other side of the Atlantic." The Conservative Daily Mail chided the embittered critics: "Such comment is as impertinent as it is stupid. The Americans have every ground for resenting it, in the same way that we resent uninformed American criticisms of our own actions. . . . The American people have exercised their democratic privilege of voting for the party that pleases them...
...Conservative Telegraph's gossip columnist wistfully admired the slogan "Had enough? Vote Republican," and suggested that British Tories negotiate for the loan...
...outsider threw them. But Dahl hails from neighboring Quincy (pronounced-in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts-"Quinzy"), is accepted as one of the family. He started on the Herald in 1928 as a $20-a-week illustrator. By last week, on his 39th birthday, his bosses (who hand sonorous, syndicated Columnist Bill Cunningham $25,000 a year) had raised Boston's top local cartooner to $115 a week...
Because the Portland Oregonian radio columnist, Bill Moyes, had been taking too many off-beat pokes at local politics. the Oregonian last week spirited him out of town. Until elections were over he would "commune with the prairie dogs" and write about just plain radio...
What had caused the break from 39.78? a lb. to 34.20?? Senator Elmer Thomas (who, Columnist Drew Pearson said, had been speculating in the market under his wife's name) charged that the fall was due to a bear raid, set the Department of Agriculture to investigating. The reason was much simpler: cotton prices were too high, had to fall...