Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same page, in the next column, in a character sketch of Congressman La Guardia from TIME'S own pen, a sentence reads: "His chief weakness is that he has no responsibility except to himself and his own conscience...
...welcomed Andrew William Mellon, more as a savior than an Ambassador. All the denials in the world could not dispel the fixed British notion that this shy, fragile old man brought, tucked away in his shiny new diplomatic baggage, a U. S. solution to War Debts & Reparations. Newspapers printed column after column about his vast wealth, his patrician manners, his astuteness in finance and art collecting. A modest advertisement that someone with £250,000 to spend wanted to buy an art collection was ignorantly but persistently ascribed to the new little figure at the Court of St. James...
...many years I have been a subscriber to and cover-to-cover reader of TIME, and at last find an opportunity to write you. In your issue of Feb. 29, p. 36, third paragraph of last column, you mention that Rome, Perugia, Florence, Budapest and Berlin were renaming streets for George Washington...
...extraordinary that Capone should have been interviewed in his cell. But next day Hearstpapers everywhere splashed the interview over four columns, in some cases under screaming eight-column banner headlines. For the interviewer was no less a journalist than Editor Arthur Brisbane...
...obsolete or else Mr. Murray would not have used it and thousands of others since then. I am wondering if the gentleman who wrote this article is an authority on jokes. If so, it probably would be a good idea for you to have him write an obsolete joke column in TIME so that the ignorant people could be kept posted and refrain from telling or laughing at them. The statement as to the people being ignorant is a more important one to me. It is a grossly misrepresented statement, as can easily be seen from the impartial viewpoint...