Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be virtually unaffected) but at the Church which was connected and will now be separated from the State. At one blow the act will deprive the Catholic Church of ownership of Spanish art treasures valued at more than $500,000,000; ownership of Seville Cathedral, where Discoverer Christopher Columbus prayed; ownership of El Escorial, the frowning monastery where Spain's officially "Catholic Sovereigns" lie buried; and, generally, of ownership of all churches, church lands and property. On the other hand the Spanish Republic, like the French Republic, will grant to the Catholic Church both use and administration...
...crowd of 200 stood around the monument in Manhattan's Columbus Circle, waiting for the Columbus Day ceremonies to begin. Just as someone was about to start the speechmaking, shots rang out a few blocks away. Reporters and cameramen raced toward the sound. They found a badly wounded holdupman who had tried to rob a store; an hysterical girl who had helped him; a dozen policemen...
There, surely, was a newspicture of the month; but not for the august Times, which printed a stodgy shot of the Columbus Circle speechmakers. Through its .Wide World syndicate the Times offered exclusive morning paper rights to the print, sold it to the tabloid Daily News for $30. Evening rights went to Hearst's Jour nal which five-columned it beneath the caption: "The Camera Sees Love. Drama. Crime, Tragedy and Probable Death...
...Photographer Eckenberg get his scoop? The Times said he simply got there first from Columbus Circle. But every other cameraman on the job told his editor another story: that lucky Eckenberg was late on his way to the Circle, was passing the store just as the shooting occurred...
...Columbus Project and the First Voyage," Mr. Usher, Widener...