Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Guild's most persistent critic and its largest champion met head-on in public debate in Manhattan. Before a hostile crowd of 700, mostly Manhattan Guildsmen, up stood Brooklyn-born Arthur T. Robb, editor of Editor & Publisher, conservative journal of the trade. His opponent: mountainous Columnist Heywood Broun, national Guild president. The clash was advertised as the press debate of the year, but the forensics fizzled, for Mr. Robb spoke from a fact-jammed cranium, while Mr. Broun replied from an overstuffed heart...
...dollars worth of Tsarist jewels which he had lost to a double-crossing German revolutionist in Haiti. Pugilist Jack Johnson, a favorite of the carousing Mexican generals, gave Beals a $20 donation to start a literary magazine. Mike Gold disappointed Beals by giving up poetry to become a Communist columnist. D. H. Lawrence, whose genius Beals admitted, disgusted him by his neurotic social behavior...
...Wrote Columnist David Lawrence in 146 U. S. newspapers: "To find the President's own appointees talking privately in tones that frequently amount to indignation and resentment is not only so extraordinary that it is important to report it even in this guarded way, but it is a reflection of the do-nothing stalemate which must be broken if business is to improve...
...Wrote Columnist Arthur Krock in the New York Times...
...Democrat Michelson was thus completing the cycle from high-powered mud slinging as an "out" in 1932 to embarrassed fog-dispelling as an "in" in 1938, the cycle was officially recognized by the Republican National Committee. Appointed Republican publicity director was short, burly, bristle-lipped Columnist Franklyn Waltman of the Washington Post, who lost his early enthusiasm for the Roosevelt Administration over the Court...