Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harding's elder brother. Dr. George Tryon Harding III, 30, of Columbus, Ohio was also in last week's news...
Donald Larue Campbell, 30, handsome Columbus, Ohio truck driver, began talking a fortnight ago. By last week he had talked himself into the headlines of the country and seemed well on the way to talking himself to death...
...General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants but ended in defeat and capture for Morgan and most of his men. Imprisoned in the Columbus Penitentiary, Morgan and six of his officers tunneled their way out, got safely back through the Northern lines...
James Thurber, whom FORTUNE describes as follows: "Thurber is madder than White. His prose is more vital, has an earthy quality refreshing in The New Yorker. Born in Columbus (39 years ago) he graduated from Ohio State University. There he is remembered as a long, lean, funny-looking grind who sat around the library all day with his hair hanging in his eyes...
...admirers who had paid $1 apiece to break bread with him. Because his afternoon was given to answering telegrams and political conferences, he did not get around to inspecting the post office, but at 5:45 o'clock he attended a 15-minute reception at the Knights of Columbus, at 6 dined with post office employes, at 7:30 paraded by car to the high-school auditorium to speak, at 9:45 was off for Arizona...