Word: columbus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Standard Race Journal") is known as "a good little sheet." Its circulation of 14,000 is exceeded by at least ten other Negro papers. Editor William Alexander Scott Jr., 29, founded the Atlanta World four years ago, founded also Southern News Syndicate serving thrice-weekly Worlds in Memphis, Birmingham, Columbus (Ga.), Greenville (N. C.). Like all other Negro papers it concerns itself solely with news of or affecting Blacks. In its first daily issues it exhorted its readers to vote against the recall of Atlanta's Mayor James Lee Key (TIME, March 28) because he had supported bond issues...
...November, 1493, that Columbus sighted Porto Rico and sailed on. A year later one of his seamen returned. The man was Ponce de Leon, an old skeptic who thought it doubtful that the best of life was yet to be if digestion was to become long and wind short. Ponce found a friend in Chief Aquebana and a fountain of wealth in the mountain gold mines. Later Ponce was expelled from the island, but the Spanish conquistadores, after standing silent a moment on a peak in Darien, made their way to Porto Rico and there was no withstanding their swords...
...Columbus, Ohio...
...Babson Park, Fla. Roger Ward Babson, famed statistician, fell from a horse and broke his foot. In Los Angeles. Cinemactor Reginald Denny was thrown from his horse in a polo game and injured. In Columbus, Ohio, Mary and Charlotte White, daughters of Governor George White, were slightly hurt in an automobile accident...
...Tucson watched the triangular action. In St. Mary's Hospital Patten Levings was unconscious. In Desert Sanatorium wan Alice Hilliard was expectant. That first day wind and rain forced Pilot Reiss down at Bellefonte, Pa., and McKeesport, Pa. He stayed over night at Columbus, Ohio. The second day winds up to 100 m. p. h. forced him to hedgehop past Indianapolis and Oklahoma City to Fort Worth. When he landed there near midnight he learned that he was no longer a savior, only a freight deliverer. Patten Levings had died. Miss Hilliard was in no great need of oxygen...