Word: spacings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side, in columns headed "Shaw Says:" and "Ford Says:" they had their daily say. They addressed each other as "my friend next door," "my fellow columnist." Candidate Ford had need of more ingenuity than his opponent in conducting his column. Not being the incumbent, he could not fill space by telling how he helped perform such municipal miracles as supplying "230 million gallons of pure water" daily to Los Angeles. Columnist Ford frequently ended each column with a direct question. Sample...
Wrote Columnist Shaw after Columnist Ford had chided him for having a great amount of billboard space and literature donated by friends: "Perhaps I do have more literature than you, more billboards, more radio time. Perhaps I have more friends." Columnist Ford had his harshest words with his fellow columnist when a batch of obviously faked circulars bearing a red hammer & sickle and purporting to be an official Communist endorsement of Candidate Ford were dropped on the city from an airplane...
...fact that the Boston papers gave slight space and less editorial comment to Mr. Curley's huff is proof enough that his attitude is one of simple pettiness and his publicizing an example of unsubtle politics. Undoubtedly Mr. Curley hopes what Professor Seavey believes, that like Thompson he will be re-elected mayor of Boston next November...
...families within the space of one generation could provide such a fertile subject for a chronicle as did the home circle of Woodrow Wilson, which is portrayed in this work by daughter. Living in a period when American home life could still be called a national institution, before the movies, the automobile and other phenomena of modern life had began to exert their disrupting influence, the Wilsons had remarkable qualities even for their age, which should make this book as fascinating for the general reading public as it is valuable for future historians...
...large space for dancing has been provided, the floor of the common room and the open air court adding to the dining room's stomping-ground. Supper is being served outside in the court-yard to the guests who are expected to come as though ship-wrecked to the "Ship-Wreck Ball." Tickets are $5.00 per couple and $3:00 stag...