Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Points West. First stop on his schedule was a meeting of some 2,000 of Ohio's top Republicans in Columbus on July 31. At that meeting, Senator John Bricker was expected to renounce his presidential ambitions in favor of his fellow Ohioan. Ohio's G.O.P. executive committee would formally choose Taft, and Ohio's favorite son would be off. Then he would relax for a month at Quebec's Murray Bay, where three generations of Tafts have relaxed before him. In September, he would take the road. On his itinerary: California, Oregon, Washington...
...blame for Italy's being in history's junk yard? Italy's witty ex-Premier Francesco Nitti named a couple of safe scapegoats: Christopher Columbus and Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli, Nitti explained, had "made us Italians out as men who are always ready to lie," Columbus was an even bigger culprit: his "indiscretion," Nitti claimed, had "shifted the axis of the world to the West," and Italy had been off the beam ever since...
...gallingly large number of news events that the network's crack news staff was unable to cover. Last week, CBS covered its embarrassment with a series called CBS Is There. This week, the network time-machined a broadcaster back to 1492 and the deck of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria. He reported...
...Columbus: "In the name of the....King and Queen of Spain, I take possession of this island and name it...San Salvador...
...take the T.B. death rate for a fall. This year a large-scale BCG (for bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, named for its discoverers) vaccination project (TIME, Nov. 11) may take it still further. The plan, to vaccinate 100,000 U.S. schoolchildren against tuberculosis, has already been begun in Columbus, Ga., will soon move on to T.B. areas in large cities (including San Francisco's Chinatown). U.S. specialists, who have long viewed BCG with suspicion in spite of its prewar successes in the Scandinavian countries, are now more enthusiastic; the San Francisco delegates gave the PHS experiment a hopeful...