Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began by writing West Point stories for boys.) In March 1935, he employed this literary talent in his famed denigration of Radio-priest Coughlin and Louisiana's late Huey P. Long (TIME, March 18, 1935). Impressed, United Feature signed up the General to do a "lighting" daily column. Though Hugh Johnson Says began with a bang, it soon degenerated to a mere pop. Returning from abroad last April, Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard spotted the Johnson feature as a weak point in his lineup...
Instead of ousting the column, Mr. Howard put the General on his mettle by moving his space in July to Page One of the World Telegram's Second Section, the paper's most prominent feature position. Soon General Johnson's "stuff" improved, became fiercely partisan for his old chief Franklin Roosevelt, rang with colorful invective. Last week a rare journalistic accolade was bestowed on Columnist Hugh Johnson when his running mate, freckle-faced Westbrook Fegler. who has been at columning some eleven years, leaned out of his crow's nest across the World-Telegram...
...General Hugh Johnson," wrote Mr. Pegler, "so I don't think I can be accused of log-rolling or back-scratching when I remark that 'Old Iron' pants,' as the boys used to call him around the NRA, is turning out a really good newspaper column these days. This is a bit of a surprise. . . . Whenever it was that Old Ironpants made his first attempt at this line of work, he seemed to be writing with his elbows, and apparently didn't have what it takes...
...first few days, but this is a long-haul job. writing a daily column, and pretty soon they began to shove him back toward the goiter-cures and electric belts, as we say in our business...
...Aside from his experience and reading, which are great equipment for his job, I like Old Ironpants' column for the wild, somewhat hilarious joy with which he sails into an argument. Sometimes it is a little cruel, because he is such a tremendous puncher, and like Dempsey, once that bell rings, he knows nothing but punch, punch, punch until something drops. He loves to tackle those stiff, straight-up-and-down stylish debaters who use the fancy words...