Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clyde Miller was installed as director of educational service at Columbia s Teachers College. In one year he skyrocketed the college's space in the metropolitan press from 400 to 5000 column inches, made it the best publicized educational institution (without a football team) in the world. He dislikes handouts prefers to chat with reporters, casually whet their curiosity so that they investigate tor themselves. For several years his activities livened conventions of the National Education Association. In 1935 he set the stage in Atlantic City for the sensational excoriation of Publisher William Randolph Hearst by Historian Charles...
...shells a day-while the Asturians still had munitions. For many weeks the city and its garrison were entirely cut off, every man limited to three quarts of water a day for drinking and washing, a loaf of bread and some beans. Eleven months ago a Rightist relief column from Grado on the west was able to chop through a corridor 18 miles long, in some places only 1,000 yd. wide, to bring men, munitions and food into Oviedo. Still besieged on three sides was Oviedo last week, and Miguel Aranda, now a general, was still its commander...
...seemed singularly appropriate. On a vast scale the General has been causing headaches in one quarter or another for the past four years-first to businessmen when he was the Blue Eagle's boss, then to anti-New Dealers in general when he began writing his United Feature column, and currently to the New Deal itself, of which he has become a severe and irascible critic. On his first headache pill program the General gave proof that he had not lost his punch...
Three years ago the arch-Republican Philadelphia Inquirer would not have printed a column by General Johnson if he had been the last columnist on Earth. In fact, until the General's belligerent attitude toward publishers while NRAd-ministrator had been forgotten, United Feature salesmen did not have too much success selling his column in the newspaper offices they solicited. In the past 60 days, however, as the Johnson bombardment of the Administration has grown to Alcazar proportions, United Feature salesmen have been able to add 13 papers to the General's string. This does not remotely approach...
...Note: The CRIMSON has extracted the names of the new secretaries from Mr. Samborski's report and printed them instead in the adjoining column on this page...