Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history was held in the eighth congressional district, across the Potomac from Washington. Virginia Republicans, who traditionally play footie with Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic courthouse cronies, put up no candidates for local offices. Winner of their nomination for Congress: Tyrrell Krum, 48, conductor of a column on veterans' affairs for the Washington Times-Herald, who will try to pry labor-baiting, reactionary Howard Smith from his well-entrenched (18 years) congressional seat...
...Security Council, insisting that Israel take back the Arabs "despite the enormous difficulties." Israeli officials disagreed. As a struggling new nation on a war footing, they said, Israel could not afford large-scale relief projects. "Furthermore," said one, "the government won't organize a large enemy fifth column, which the return of some of these Arabs would obviously create . . . The ones who are pressing for their return are Arab states who . . . want to be rid of the economic and social problem they have created...
...Ludwigshafen, half of whom rely at least indirectly on the plant for their living, also showed a noticeable lack of panic. When the blast disintegrated windows in houses as far as five miles away, the people poked their heads through the empty frames, looked up at the monster column of billowing black smoke, and yelled across to one another: "So, it is the factory again...
Nine out of ten Americans who have read these and other shock-slogans of fund-raising campaigns have felt the desired shiver. The tenth, who did not, was Albert Deutsch. Mr. Deutsch, who writes a medical and social welfare column in the New York Star, finally felt annoyed. Wrote Deutsch last week: "When the whole grim truth is told, one out of every one of us dies. Period. I am disturbed by the sustained note of terror in the slogans constantly tossed at us by worthy health organizations in efforts to pry loose . . . enough dollars to fight effectively some particular...
Deutsch's column was read by people involved in fundraising. Said one: "Hmmm. We can't keep on killing people forever." It is likely that some changes will be made. For Columnist Deutsch, who never studied medicine, is nevertheless a power in U.S. medical journalism. In 1945, when he launched a one-man attack on the medical setup of the Veterans Administration, he almost went to jail. He refused to name his news sources for a series of 50 articles (13 of them containing constructive suggestions, a fair Deutsch percentage) and was voted in contempt of Congress...