Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina who last week stamped on it with his feet (see p. g). General Hugh Johnson, when he recently finished reading Ferdinand Lundberg's America's 60 Families, was moved to violent action. So he damned the book in his daily column and roared into a microphone on his Bromo Quinine hour: "It is such a tissue of libel that the father of lies will have to move over on his throne when the spook of that author arrives. Moreover, it is the frankest kind of Communist propaganda." The General...
...Hotel (Warner Brothers), is the name of a venerable, no longer pretentious Hollywood hostelry. It is much more widely known, however, as the name of Campbell Soup's weekly radio program in which cinema stars are chattily introduced by No. i Hearst Movie Columnist Louella O. Parsons. The column has national circulation, so in return for mention in the Parsons' jottings, even though their inaccuracy is celebrated, Hollywood obediently sits up and begs. Broadcaster Parsons can get actors on the Campbell hour for nothing, whereas other radio programs lay out large sums for screen names. In return, "Lolly...
Favorite baiting spot was the Times Square Automat, which was handy to union headquarters and a good place to attract a crowd. Once the pickets egged on the police by lying down on the sidewalk in droves. Last month they tried marching in a column of 100 at the height of dinner-hour traffic, a move which ended, as it was supposed to, in a pitched battle. Eight policemen were hurt and scores of pickets arrested, including a girl who was held for assault for kicking a cop in the shins. Only contribution to the tactics of industrial warfare...
...brick units. The Johnson Building is the first sizable structure Wright has had a chance to build since the Imperial Hotel, and it ranks with that masterpiece as an engineering feat. Wright's plans for it set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. The columns by which the architect proposed to support his building were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft. in diameter at the top to a base 8 in. thick at the floor. By ordinary reckoning, these slenderizing pencils would take about two tons weight each...
With the Redmen from McGill out of the way until next season, the Varsity Hockey team will endeavour to get back into the win column and boost their standing in the International Intercollegiate League when they face Princeton on the Hobey Banker Memorial Rink Saturday night...