Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey is steadily proving his mettle: whatever happens in '44, he will have an increasing voice in the Republican Party and the nation. At the Governors' Conference in Columbus last June, he stole the show by offering a daring and sense-making food program (TIME, July 5). At Mackinac, a forthright Dewey press conference got as many headlines as the conference resolution itself (TIME, Sept...
North Carolina was founded on Columbus Day, 1793 by a Princeton graduate, Revolutionary Cavalryman William Richardson Davie, later governor of the state. Draping himself in his finery as a Masonic Grand Master, he repaired to a rude country crossroads where the local citizenry had provided free land for a college. There he was aided in laying the cornerstone of what is now East Hall by his fellow Princetonian Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, who hoped to see the land "adorned with an elegant village...
...refusing to see foreign ambassadors in person. Madrid gossips have long whispered that Franco dreams of founding a dynasty of his own. He might, they murmur, marry off his young daughter, Carmencita, to the Duke of Veragua, scion of a famous bull-raising family and descendant of Christopher Columbus...
...With the Columbus Day holiday breaking into the short time remaining before Winter term study cards are due, College officials yesterday stressed the importance of immediate course-planning, although the new catalogs will not be issued from the University Hall until 9 o'clock tomorrow...
Feasible v. Popular. Newsmen, out of old antipathies from the days when yount Tom Dewey was known as "The Boy Scout," asked needling questions, kept getting keen, straightforward answers. At the end of his press conference, Tom Dewey had won most of them over, 100%. As at the Columbus Governors' Conference (Time, July 5), Dewey had stolen the show...