Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain was as shocked as the constable. Did Sussex nurture another Dillinger? Was Worthing to be the Chicago of the Downs? The County armed. Huge Webley & Scott revolvers were issued to the local police, a fact that produced eight column headlines in the London Press. Brass-helmeted firemen were mobilized. Hundreds of volunteers scoured the hedgerows and lanes in cars and on chugging motor bikes. Unasked, Sir Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts joined the man hunt...
Shocked, horrified, scandalized and enraged were readers of Labor Action, organ of the American Workers' Party, to find the foregoing quotation in their paper last month. It appeared in a column "In the Unions," written by a brawny, pipe-smoking youth named Karl Lore, 24, whose father, Ludwig Lore, writes "Behind the Cables" in the New York Post...
...readers who turned to current issues of American Machinist for the original advertisement failed to find it. Asked where he got it last week, Columnist Lore explained that he had quoted it from an editorial column in the Kern County Union Labor Journal, edited in Bakersfield, Calif, by one Wallace Watson. Editor Watson said he had picked up the text of the advertisement from a column in the April issue of the New Leader written by Socialist Norman Thomas...
...Thomas column, headed "Timely Topics," introduced the advertisement with the words: "All young men ought to be interested in knowing how much more scientific are the means by which they may die in the next war." Columnist Thomas had received the text from one Alan Clark, active member of the Socialist Party in Berkeley, Calif. It came typewritten on a plain piece of paper headed: "Facsimile of an advertisement appearing in the American Machinist...
...AFTER TERROR Thus read a one-column headline in the Kansas City Star one clay last week. Another in an adjacent column read...