Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford also adopted an idea offered by Columnist Sylvia Porter: he solicited suggestions from all Americans on specific ways in which inflation can be fought and energy saved through the multiplied actions of millions of individuals. In his speech, Ford urged everyone "to join us in a great effort-and to become inflation fighters and energy savers." He urged citizens to list ten helpful suggestions, act on them and send a copy of them to the White House. The proposals, Ford said, should involve "little things that have become habits but don't really affect your health and happiness...
...week to infuriate, invigorate and inspire newspaper readers. Last week Joe, 63, announced that he will stop writing his 37-year-old syndicated column and work on a two-volume book on art collecting and taste. To those who deplored the loss of a literate conservative-if sometimes outrageous-columnist, Joe was testy: "I'm an old New Dealer," he said. "I've been for progressive legislation all my life." Then he added: "But I've been hard-headed on foreign affairs," alluding to his superhawk loyalist stand on Viet Nam and President Nixon. None...
Those lines, which recently appeared in more than 150 U.S. newspapers, might have been written by any contemporary columnist last week, except perhaps for the dated, folksy tone. In fact, they were composed by the late Will Rogers 41 years ago. Since early March, Rogers' wry, apt commentaries on U.S. life in the '20s and early '30s have been resuscitated in a daily column syndicated by the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Usually the pieces have uncannily current impact...
Both candidates are running rigorous campaigns, in fact the charges and counter-charges have been so numerous that a Democratic political columnist in The Indianapolis News suggested the campaign issues might be burned out by election time...
David B. Wilson, a columnist who did blast this racism, delivered the following cloying and romanticized perception, on seeing a black baby in the subway...