Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public see what is being painted in the United States today. A newspaper doesn't endorse murder when it prints the news of a murder." May I complete his statement by adding that neither do newspapers pay prize money to the murderers? . . . GEORGIA S. RAPER Columbus, Ohio...
...reign of the Emperor Valentinian, there occurred in an obscure part of the heavens, an explosion to which the eruption of Vesuvius was but as the striking of a match. Columbus discovered America and Washington fought the Revolution in complete ignorance of the cataclysm. Not until the year of grace 1934 did J. P. M. Prentice of Stowmarket, England, first observe the results of the convulsion, known to men as Nova Herculis. Over 10,000 observations of its progress have been made since, according to Leon Campbell instructor in Astronomy at the Observatory...
Only the National Student League and the Student's League for Industrial Democracy of all the Harvard political groups have definitely indicated their intention of sending delegates to the new American Student Union convention in Columbus, Ohio on Friday and Saturday, December 27 and 28. The meeting is being called for the purpose of uniting the various liberal, pacifist, and discussion organizations against war and fascism...
...which the present one day recesses might be turned in for an extra week during the Joyous Season, the Crimson is astonished to see that one can eat his cake and have, it, since the latest announcement makes no mention of the suspension of such idyllic interludes as Columbus Day or Washington's Birthday...
...unrelated incidents of last week cost Franklin D. Roosevelt a certain num-ber of Roman Catholic votes: 1) In a letter to the Knights of Columbus of New Haven, the President reiterated that his policy would be one, in no sense of "indifference," but absolutely of "nonintervention" with the Mexican Government in its domestic war on the Catholic Church. 2) Charles Edward Coughlin, the loud Michigan radio priest who once cried "Roosevelt or Ruin" and since has differed with the New Deal on several issues, made the breach definite. He publicly proclaimed: "Today I humbly stand before the American public...