Word: howard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pygmalion (Leslie Howard, Wendy Killer; TIME...
...admirers call Clinton Norman Howard "The Little Giant," because he looks and spouts like old-time Orator Stephen Douglas. As superintendent of the International Reform Federation in Washington he is No. 1 U. S. reformer. His potential enemies, from Billiards to Theatre, are catalogued alphabetically in the Federation's offices. Lately one of the Little Giant's files-the one on Gambling-has been particularly crammed. What made Reformer Howard broody was the fact that a lot of this gambling was under church auspices. For the last three years, U. S. churches have raised thousands of dollars...
...Howard P. Mendel '40, captain-elect of the soccer team, was decidedly opposed to the Council's plan and suggested a possible solution would be to raise all minor sports on the same status with the majors...
Pygmalion (Leslie Howard, Wendy Killer; TIME...
Highest-paid columnist was the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann, whose salary was $62,476. Hearst's Arthur ("Bugs") Baer made $53,000. Walter Winchell $51,699. Scripps-Howard's Westbrook Pegler's $46,263 salary was $10,003 more than that of his friendly enemy, Heywood Broun.* Eleanor Roosevelt drew $16,587 (all pledged to charity); Hugh Johnson...