Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...block long column, with tempo established by the Navy Receiving Station Band from the South Boston Yard, will be headed by the executive officer of the NROTC unit, Commander Stanley L. Wilson, who will serve as Brigade Commander
...portrayed the horticulturist Uncle, hampered only by a beard which obscured too many of his lines. Mendy Weisgal startled the audience by doubling up with two minor roles. His appearance as the Nephew was too brief to be convincing; as an old man he has received attention in this column before...
...about 2:20 o'clock to take part in the spring review of the Department of Military Science and Tactics. Only disturbing element in the picture is obvious to those who have observed recent Naval R.O.T.C. drills. Leaving Memorial Hall shortly after 2 o'clock, the block-long column of blue-coats should pass down Massachusetts Avenue just as the first khaki units attempt to 'go ashore' from the NTS quadrangle...
...column, Ickes was hired by the Chicago Record. Warned the city editor: Never use the tautological phrase "old veteran." (All veterans, insisted the editor, were old.) Ickes promptly wrote "old veteran" into his first piece of copy, survived, and was offered a staff job at $12 a week. He rejected it, switched to the Chicago Tribune and became a regular reporter Bilious Bertie. It is at this stage that the Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick first appears, never to be ab sent again for more than a few chapters...
Boston newspaper were among the last to give up the old isolationist line. They have long indulged in attacking Russia at the least provocation. To editorialize on their editorial pages is their privilege. But when they make use of the news column, supposedly devoted to exposition of fact, to give their readers mistaken impressions about the beliefs of public and church leaders, they do more than cripple the national program at a crucial time. They become a threat to democracy itself, because they dilute the value of a free press...