Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody cheered last week when the Treasury Department, just before the end of the first half of its fiscal year, found itself with a $14,768.621 surplus. It was merely a bookkeepers' surplus-a row of eight figures in black at the bottom of a column of current running expenses. The real story was on the other side of the ledger. To nine fat figures in red labeled "Emergency Funds," a tenth was last week added as the 1934 deficit climbed over the billion mark for the first time this fiscal year...
...final issue of E. W. Howe's Monthly, printed like a newspaper but containing nothing except the editor's personal opinions and a two-column bibliography of his books, pamphlets and anthologies, appeared last November. Whether or not he would continue writing for syndicate publication, Editor Howe, sunning his old bones in Miami, was not sure last week. To subscribers-some of whom paid $1 for life subscriptions-he planned to refund the amounts...
More like their father than the others is Son Eugene Alexander Howe who ran the Atchison Globe for twelve years after Ed Howe left, then moved to Amarillo, Tex. to start a chain of papers of his own. His column in the Amarillo News-Globe, The Tactless Texan, has given Gene Howe more than his neighborly nickname "Old Tack.'' He got himself nationally quoted in 1928, when he called Lindbergh "swell-headed . . . simple-minded . . . lucky"; in 1929, when he said that Mary Garden was "so old she actually tottered." When Mary Garden visited Amarillo for the second time...
...November 1929 the Winchell column in the New York tabloid Daily Mirror read: "If I were king I would throttle the swift talker who got me to consent to serve on the board of governors for the planned Fleetwood Beach Club at Long Beach. N. Y., just because Eddie Cantor. George Jessel, Bugs Baer. Mark Hellinger and others were so gullible. The enterprise, it appears, is being worked along the lines of another 'racket,' to which I am opposed and I hope others won't invest in the damb thing because our names are being prostituted...
...from the icy Mt. Washington range rushed a freezing winter gale Sunday night before last, howling among the eaves of tight little New Hampshire homesteads. Seated around their snug fireplaces, winter-bound New Hampshiremen listened to their radios. Those who were listening to gabby Walter Winchell's air column were in for a surprise. As a rule. Columnist Winchell confines himself to reporting who is whose "heart," what romances have "gone phffft" on "the Stem." Unexpectedly assuming the role of kingmaker, he jolted his listeners in the Granite State by announcing: "The New York Herald Tribune is plotting...