Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is Hugh Johnson," howled the General. ''Can you take down my column for tomorrow...
However, United Feature was glad to get even half a Johnson column for the New York World-Telegram, 30 other papers. Scarcely two months ago, few of the 2,273,222 readers thus affected would have cared if Hugh Johnson Says had completely failed to appear. Difference between the storm-racked Johnson column of last week and its beginnings represented one of the year's most sudden and startling reversals of journalistic form...
...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...
...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's ''folio page" to give the newcomer a friendly hail, pay him a well-deserved compliment...
...have never met 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...