Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprised to read your squib in Transport column (TIME, May 9) on Verdun High's 5? hydrogen-charged balloon and its long distance perambulations which weren't long distance at all. ... It all came out in the early wash the day after the letter arrived that a member of the chemistry class which released the balloon had connived with a pen-pal in Singapore to mail the letter, which he himself wrote. The prank-loving student felt the qualms of conscience and 'fessed up when his classmates collected a sum of money to send to the "Chinese...
...good friend of Justice Harlan F. Stone that by last week he and Justice Stone's office both felt called upon to deny that Mr. Stone had been Mr. Childs's chief source of information. By this time Scripps Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper had written a column corroborating Mr. Childs's article and adding that Justice McReynolds had been amused by it. Reporter Herbert Little of the Washington News had noted that whatever his other colleagues felt, at least Justices Brandeis and Roberts were on the best of friendly terms with Justice Black. And, leaping...
...that vicinity the Japanese Army, doubled to a strength of 200,000 men in the last two weeks, was getting perilously near to the vital railway, had almost encircled Suchow. While Chinese defenses North of the railway held fast, even Chinese communiqués admitted Japanese advances by mobile columns from the South. At week's end the Japanese claimed that one column had cut the railroad at Tangshan, 50 miles west of Suchow. There the Japanese Southern Army hoped to meet the Japanese Northern Army and close the western end of the Lunghai corridor...
...Reason: The Neutrality Act prohibits arms shipments "in violation of a treaty" and the 1921 peace treaty specifically prohibits "importation into Germany of arms, munitions and war materials." That day, Columnist Drew Pearson, co-author of the Merry-Go-Round, attended a State Department press conference at which his column instantly became the main topic of discussion...
...Fact and Rumour" is composed of excerpts from a column by that name published in the "Daily Crimson" 50 years age. The items are here reproduced as they were printed then. The dates in parenthoson indicate the dates of the issues in which the excerpts appeared...