Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Calls to Columbia 1492 last night drew nothing but a busy signal. Investigation revealed a beauty shoppe on the other end. Attempts to call October 1212 drew only the operator...
...Quevedo Guild claims 15,000 members, each of whom Psychologist de Quevedo calls "his intimate friend." Since he began his lecture tours, Dr. de Quevedo has appeared in U. S. cities under the auspices not only of local Guilds but of such approved Catholic organizations as the Knights of Columbus and the Holy Name Society. His Manhattan debut last week was endorsed by Fordham University (Jesuit...
...American Revolution. He has been in the business of peddling propaganda almost since he could walk. His first work as a boy was selling newspapers. He taught school for a year after graduation from Ohio State University but dropped that to write advertising copy for a Columbus department store. Working as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he asked for the assignment to cover education, within a year shifted the city's newsorgans' attention from political squabbles to constructive achievements of the schools. This won him a job as public relations man for the Cleveland school system...
...Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Minette H. Stahl sued F. W. Woolworth Co. & Donald F. Duncan (top distributors) for $31,304 damages incurred when, during a demonstration, she was hit on the back of the, head by a whirling...
...Dorothy Thompson: "She is a victim of galloping nascence. Most of her newspaper training was received abroad when she was an active if not particularly profound foreign correspondent. Returning to her native land, she is suddenly filled with the same fervor of discovery as 'Stout Cortez' or Columbus. . . . If all the speeches she has made in the past twelve months were laid end to end they would constitute a bridge of platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon. Dorothy Thompson is greater than Eliza because...