Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lordship (a Roman Catholic) was in Canada on wartime business for the Knights of Columbus. Looking at Nova Scotia had given him his great idea. He would purchase a chunk of provincial acreage, after war's end transplant Scots from his own bleak estate. A new link between old and new Scotland would be forged, his hereditary holdings would in a sense be reclaimed, everyone would be happy...
...flatly for Tom Herbert, sent his own secretary to Ohio to help run Herbert's campaign for the May 9 primary. Then up popped a third Republican, a second Herbert: grizzled Lieut. Governor Paul Herbert, 54, who has been state American Legion commander and exalted ruler of Columbus Elks. Tom Herbert's friends promptly declared that Paul Herbert's campaign was just a Boss Schorr trick to confuse the voters...
...also vice president of Columbus, Ohio's largest store, F. & R. Lazarus & Co., and president of John Shillito Co., one of Cincinnati's biggest department stores...
...views of gracious colonial staircases, the tower of St. Botolph's, Boston, England where John Cotton was vicar and the rather grotesque animal drawings from Brickell's The Natural History of North Carolina. The book is divided into ten chapters, the first covering the years between Columbus' first voyage and the founding of Jamestown, and the last, the American Revolution...
...Sylvan Hoffman and C. Hartley Grattan (Garden City; $3.49) might turn out to be a revolution in text-teaching. It is almost certain to be a huge favorite of parlor readers and guessing-gamesters. It consists of 41 four-page tabloid editions which bring vivid immediacy to events from Columbus' discovery through Pearl Harbor...