Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kill the Pigs. The talk ran cross-country; at the Governors' Conference in Columbus, up rose New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to warn his Midwestern colleagues that unless more grain flowed from the Midwest to the East, milk rationing would be a fact by October...
State of Emergency. Frantic pleas brought Governor Harry F. Kelly flying home from the Governor's conference in Columbus, Ohio. He called out 1,000 state troops, rushed in 500 state police, asked Fort Custer for 1,000 military police, and decreed a "state of emergency" for Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, which include and surround Detroit. Under the decree, all bars and restaurants were shut, a 10 p.m. curfew established. Still the rioting continued. Finally, after a proclamation by Franklin Roosevelt ordering the rioters to disperse, Federal troops marched in, cleared the streets...
...grade: Negro Captain Alonzo Pietro of Columbus' good ship Nina...
...American Medical Association (1917-18); in Lake Forest, Ill. Dr. Bevan, University of Chicago surgical lecturer since 1901, originated the "hockey-stick" incision for gall-bladder operations, was one of the largest stockholders among Diamond Match Corp. directors (his wife was sole heir to Match Tycoon Ohio Columbus Barber...
Ancestral Portraits. America, says Taylor, is now in spiritual liquidation. When Taylor's great-great-grandfather Robert Taylor built the first house in Columbus, Ohio, enterprise was not some thing people argued about. They had it, or they didn't. Robert Taylor had it. His wife Mehitabel and their children - five of the eleven were less than twelve years old - followed him by wagon. Mehitabel drove the wagon. Before she left New York she made the maiden trip up the Hudson on Fulton's Clermont. When she reached the Ohio wilderness the first thing she told Robert...