Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, the Rockefeller Foundation looks down on great liners moored in the Hudson River. Among the ships on which the Foundation's chairman, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., and its president, Raymond Elaine Fosdick, looked last week were the German steamers Deutschland and Columbus, the Italian Rex. Fresh from the printer was the opinion of the governments symbolized by those ships, which President Fosdick was about to deliver to Mr. Rockefeller and the other 18 trustees of the $150,000,000 philanthropic Foundation. Wrote this great almoner...
...Dartmouth fortnight ago Miler Glenn Cunningham ran the world's fastest mile in 4 min. 4.4 sec. Last week, with his Dartmouth record not yet officially accepted, he competed in the annual games of the Knights of Columbus in Manhattan. Without close competition-Gene Venzke crossed the line 30 yards behind him-he breezed through a mile in 4 min. 7.4 sec., breaking his own (recognized) indoor record by one second. Seventy minutes later he attempted something more difficult. He entered the 600-yard race, less than half his usual distance. The others made a sprinting start. He elected...
Some hundreds or thousands of years before Christopher Columbus, a huge cluster of metallic meteorites-or a small comet-400 or 500 ft. in diameter and weighing millions of tons, entered the Earth's atmosphere over northeastern Canada, plunged southward in a flaming, thundering arc over the Dakotas and Colorado, no doubt scaring thousands of savages almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite...
Beside the Senate fight between Roadbuilder Bulkley and Roadbuilder White, Ohio was looking forward to one of the liveliest gubernatorial battles of the year. At the Jackson Day dinner in Columbus, Democratic National Committeeman Charles Sawyer jarred many a diner by delivering a harangue against the "corruption and graft rampant" during the two administrations of Democratic Governor Martin Luther Davey. Practical Committeeman Sawyer's unsurprising solution was to enter the gubernatorial primary himself. Tree-Surgeon Davey, who once enjoyed a reputation as a champion of Labor, prejudiced it when he helped break the strike in Little Steel last summer...
...trapsed home in a healthy, sentimental mood, however, for they were given the opportunity just before the 600 to pay tribute to William C. Prout, Knights of Columbus brother, who instituted the first K. of C. Meet. Lights were dimmed, and the audience was asked to rise in their seats and stand in silence for a full minute. The silence was prolonged, however, by difficulty with the amplifier switchboard which delayed "The Star Spangled Banner" from starting until well on into the minute...