Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considered an intelligent journalist, but she was a reporter and no pundit. Then, in March 1936, Mrs. Ogden Reid, super-clubwoman vice president of the New York Herald Tribune, hired her to write a column. It was to run on the same page as Lippmann's Today and Tomorrow, three times a week, and it was expected to present the woman's point of view toward such public matters as women could be expected to grapple with...
...took root in the U. S. and Canada long before Founder Williams died. Its American backers, beginning 50 years ago, did far more than those of any other nation to extend its work throughout the world. They also shifted its emphasis. Today, with some 1,900,000 members in 10,000 local associations in 60 lands, the "Y" is no longer exclusively evangelical or Christian; Jews may belong.* Most people now think of the Y. M. C. A. not as a religious organization but as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with gymnasiums and clean beds...
...small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics. His institution comes close to being the most enterprising State university. Five years ago its General College was a bold experiment to provide misfit students with a broad, unclassical education. Today it is widely copied...
...James R. Lemon's sweet-singing children are living today. The Big Singing continues in the Marshall County Court House every May, but many of its dog-eared copies of Southern Harmony been thumbed to pieces...
...Wall Street Journal. Edited by stocky, literate John A. Straley, pulp fiction writer and wholesale representative for Calvin Bullock, investment bankers, last week's 17th annual edition of the Bawl Street Journal (11,000 copies at 50?) was a sardonic reflection of the state of U. S. Business today...