Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Major General Logan Feland, 67, U.S.M.C., retired. Commander of the U. S. Marine occupation of Nicaragua (1927-29); of heart disease; in Columbus, Ohio...
...Columbus, Ohio, with the thermometer at 101°, patrolmen leaned intently over their cruiser radios, heard an announcement: "Calling all cars . . . calling all cars. . . . All policemen in radio cruisers may unbutton their coats. That...
Basing his work on Sir Edward Creasy's original book, The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, which ends with Waterloo; Artist Johnson added Babylon, Crecy, Gettysburg, the First Marne; introduced such characters as Richard Coeur de Lion, Columbus, Ferdinand and Isabella. Cyrus of the Persians besieges Babylon (538 B. C.) At Marathon (490 B. C.) Miltiades and the Greeks hew down the Persians. Alexander the Great gestures imperially to his invincible Macedonians. The Roman Legions' S.P.Q.R. banner rises in triumph over Hasdrubal. Joan of Arc, whose face resembles that of Whitney Museum Director Juliana Force, lifts...
Robert Aitken (Supreme Court Building pediment) was rounding out his fourth year of work on the direct commission for a frieze in the Columbus, Ohio Gallery of Fine Arts...
Undertaker Harry H. Shaw of Columbus, Ohio, chairman of the air rates committee of the National Funeral Directors Association, revealed that he had been dickering for years for special rates with airlines. But Undertaker Howard Rowland of St. Louis was the convention sensation, bringing a cadaver for autopsy in his own Stinson monoplane, which he uses several times a month to carry dead or dying persons home. Undertaker Rowland scoffs at the convention suggestion that aerial funerals may become a fad as rising land values force cemeteries farther away from cities. According to him, the only aerial funerals...