Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columnist Heywood Broun reported that little-foxy Miss Bankhead subsequently told...
...Pure-hearted Frank Murphy announced: "I personally don't want to be on a ticket of any kind." Opined Columnist Raymond Clapper, who has excellent Administration sources: ". . . The Attorney General is running too hard for the Vice Presidency . . . [There is a] hint in certain quarters . . . that [he] forget the ballyhoo and buckle down to work...
...handiwork, they sped to the Senate hot with anger. Virginia's Carter Glass promptly announced himself as a champion for scores of thousands of Federal workers not so fortunate as to work for Congress. What the House had done for itself, the Senate could undo. Pending redress, Columnist Raymond Clapper (Scripps-Howard) spoke for other nonimmune D. C. residents in words of measured scorn...
...Charles Wiltschek, a crippled artist, persuaded Evelyn ("Evie") Robert-Washington Times-Herald columnist and wife of Lawrence ("Chip") Robert Jr., secretary of the Democratic National Committee-to let him paint her portrait from a photograph, then sued her for $750 when she rejected it as outrageous. Caught in the toils of the law, she last week settled out of court, then treated her portrait as she thought it deserved: kicked a hole through the face...
Told by newsmen that Columnist Westbrook Pegler had suggested he go back to work, Labor Martyr Tom Mooney brandished a paid-up A. F. of L. Molders Union card, snapped: "During eight years of that hell [22 years in San Quentin Prison] I peeled potatoes. . . . Maybe that writer of scurrilous stuff may classify what he does as work...