Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unexpectedly, our train was halted at a small town and surrounded by Russian troops with fixed bayonets. An officer boarded the train and ordered all American bank men to come with him. About a score of us were lined up in "column of twos" and marched into the village between files of soldiers. I must confess to an attack of cold sweat as we marched down the street not knowing our destination but fearing the worst...
...COURSE WE SAW PEGLER MONDAY COLUMN BEFORE PRINTING. JOHN BOETTIGER...
...Brigadier General Pelham D. Glassford, retired. Last week another indigent siege of the Capital, by 2,500 jobless WPA workers who belong to David Lasser's Workers' Alliance, produced no whiff more deadly than that of Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, retired, who editorialized in his Scripps-Howard column: "It seems to be intimidation of the Legislature by a tiny minority using the silent threat of incipient riot. Their leaders . . . just want to use a lot of hungry and desperate suckers as demonstration puppets and they are more pleased than not when the poor boobs get all bloodied...
...counterattack on Madrid failed month ago (TIME, Aug. 16), Italian staff officers were given their innings, permitted an attempt to re-establish Italian military prestige with a mass attack on the onetime summer resort of Santander. key point of the shrunken and crumbling Basque front. As predicted, the Rightist columns found ineffective resistance among the 25,000 Basques and Asturian miners defending Santander and last week Santander fell. As predicted, Italy threw aside the last vestige of neutrality in the Spanish Civil War. The three Italian divisions-Black Arrow, Black Flame, 20th of March - which had helped reduce the city...
This did not surprise Wenatchee. Editor Woods, on vacation, was gratifying a boyhood ambition and gathering material for his column. "In Our Own World," all in one putty-nose junket. He did two performances a day with a professional clown named "Happy" Kellams in the Cole...