Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always proud of his Democratic regularity, has been growing more friendly toward the Roosevelt Administration. He sympathized with the President in the uproar over airmail contracts. Publisher Tichenor. in addition to New Outlook, owns Spur, Sportsman Pilot. Port and Aero Digest. March number of Aero Digest contains a sizzling column by Publisher Tichenor in his ''Air-Hot and Otherwise'' department which flays the Administration's cancellation of contracts. The April issue of New Outlook will have a similar article. Another difference of opinion between Editor Smith and his employer was supposed to have concerned...
Once more the CRIMSON scoops the field! Although it was not emphasized in any yellow-press, sensational style, the news contained in this (Monday) morning's CRIMSON is indeed startling. I refer, of course, to the notice concerning "brother Kelton" in the Playgoer's column on page four. Considering how feminine a young lady Pert Kelton was only a picture or two ago, I find it quite remarkable that "he" can now fit a gangster part perfectly, crack a crib with "his" underlings...
...into the wolf-tended folds of their subscribers; with what lurid phrases they depicted the Alpine peaks of journalism which they were about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate's bustle, and in a soft, artistic way, other pundits refined the dross from the Graduate's Magazine. The editors were not lacking in brilliance, but, are gratia artis, they eschewed such fundamental principles...
...Courier-Journal's letter column there appeared last week a communication which roundly flayed the State Legislature, with the intimation that Speaker Woodfin Ernest Rogers Sr. was accepting bribes. The writer signed him self "One Who Believes in Honest Gov ernment, a member of the House of Representatives." Said he: "Who tells the Speaker what bills to be killed? . . . Someone behind the screen is pulling the strings." Coming, as it appeared, from inside the Capitol at Frankfort, the letter stung the Legislature in a tender spot. A committee formed to investigate lobbying wired the Courier-Journal for the name...
Yesterday in this column the CRIMSON asked that the men behind the sex questionnaire come forth from their anonymity and announce their intentions and authority. This has been done, and it is only reasonable to say that the response is perfectly satisfactory. The authorities are well known and responsible; the statistics are to be copyrighted and will not, presumably, be available to the general press. All that one could wish is that these things had been made apparent from the beginning, and that the sponsors of the investigation had not felt that secrecy was so necessary to their cause...