Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourteen Yale faculty members wrote the New York Times that knowledge and better understanding in both nations would keep the peace. Conservative Columnist David Lawrence wrote: "Despite outer appearances . . . there are reasons for believing that the unity of the two countries . . . has not been disturbed and will not be. In the next few months [U.S.Russian relations] will tend to clarify and undergo substantial improvement...
...through the libretto. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., is now a timid tyrant of a producer (Victor Moore); Dick Deadeye is Dick Live-Eye (William Gaxton), a rapacious agent. Ralph Rackstraw (Gilbert Russell) is a lowlier writer than he was a tar; and Little Buttercup is Little ButterUp, a gurgling columnist named Louhedda Hopsons (Shirley Booth...
Wrinkling his emotional nose, Columnist Samuel Grafton wrote: "There isn't any meat; that's war. There isn't any curfew; that's peace. The price of steel scrap is going down; that's peace. Try and get sugar; that...
Like his competitors, Columnist Walker has in recent years gone onwards & upwards from bedroom tattle to palace prattle. Last week, when President Truman named three new Cabinet members (see U.S. AT WAR), Columnist Walker promptly reminded his readers that he (like everyone else) had predicted that there would be some Cabinet changes. He neglected to add that his predictions had been flatly wrong...
...completed, Mr. Roosevelt sent him to Puerto Rico to govern that hot and troubled island. The President did not pack him off to get him out of the way. Puerto Rico needed a steadying rein. It got it. The retired Admiral governed with a fair, gloved hand. A newspaper columnist nicknamed him El Lija, a Spanish play on his name which translates, "The Sandpaper." But the people cheered him when he left and even threw flowers in his path...