Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Michigan; the 38th annual Big Ten track & field championships; for the 16th year; with a total of 61½ points to which Negro Bill Watson contributed most individually when he won the discus, shot-put and broad jump and placed third in the high jump; at Columbus, Ohio. Runner-up was Wisconsin with 37 points. Tailender was Northwestern with...
Widow Grace Goodhue Coolidge sold The Beeches, the $39,000 eight-acre Northampton, Mass, estate on which Calvin Coolidge died in January 1933 to a local lumber dealer for a reputed $10,000. Mrs. Coolidge is building herself a new house in Northampton, now spends her winters in Columbus...
...visible working model" for Catholics throughout the U. S., a Press Relations Committee was formed in Manhattan, its membership representing 14 national Catholic groups like the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Daughters of America, Fordham Alumni, etc. The committee divided into subcommittees, one to watch for "anti-Catholic propaganda" in each important newspaper and magazine, with a view to beginning negotiations if a publication persists in being biased. Father Toomey denies that the aims of the Press Relations Committee resemble those of the Legion of Decency. Declared he: "The function of these committees is not primarily one of protest or criticism...
...Tales. Though William Jay Schieffelin, vice president of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, thought "LIFE rendered a public service by picturing in a decent way the facts about the birth of a baby which every child should know," New York State's Knights of Columbus complained to New York City's five county district attorneys. Result was that District Attorney Samuel L. Foley of The Bronx arrested four news dealers for selling indecent literature. LIFE prepared to defend them, as it did dealers in Boston...
...least ten certain points in each dual meet, for in present league competition there is no one near him in the furlong and quarter. Willie took two national crowns in the N.C.A.A. meet recently, and placed second to Ralph Flanagan at the National A.A.U. meet last Saturday at Columbus, Ohio...