Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very day of his appointment, General Johnson in his syndicated newspaper column had pointed out that useful public construction was an arithmetical impossibility if 3,500,000 unemployed were to share the allotted four billion, characterized the whole Federal program as "a more ambitious kind of leaf-raking." In Manhattan, however, now that he had been made Model No. 1 for the 48 other Works Progress Administrators who will be designated to supervise state Federal spending, the loyal General changed his tune, promised "no boon- doggling." Most of New York's municipal organization of 3,000 professional relievers General Johnson...
Last week burly, whimsical, pipe-sucking Christopher Morley popped O. O. McIntyre onto the front pages with the cry of "plagiarism." The cry was raised over the latest McIntyre book, The Big Town, a collection of "New York Day By Day" columns. In his own "Bowling Green" column in the Saturday Review of Literature Mr. Morley ironically recalled that McIntyre had long been a Morley enthusiast. (Sample McIntyre column note: "The most perfect verbal silversmith, to my notion, is Christopher Morley.") Morley went on to say that McIntyre had been so carried away by his enthusiasm that for 15 years...
...want to seem selfish if Mr. McIntyre needs to divot the Green now and then for his newspaper syndicate; I've run a daily column myself and I know it's a tough job. But when he gets into the bookshops then I feel a certain sense of trade honor involved. ... I work hard over my stuff, and if people are going to read it I'd prefer them to get it in the Saturday Review . . . under my own name than in the Hearst papers under...
...instance were large gobs of similar copy quoted. . . . And after all, why should 'the most successful columnist in the business take the copy of the most unsuccessful?copy that long ago was proved unsalable. I should say that Mr. Morley, whose 'Bowling Green' column is perhaps the least read in the history of journalism, is capitalizing on Mr. McIntyre's popularity...
Last year he began contributing a column to the Daily Maroon (student newspaper). Excerpt...