Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mountain next week to prove to everybody that his movement wasn't on the skids. But one Southern governor had denounced the Klan, without suffering for it, as a mob of "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks," and in the past year antimasking ordinances had been passed in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities. In Grand Dragon Green's home town, the fight against him had been led by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Council of Churchwomen and leaders of Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary and other civic clubs. Reported...
Mexicans took it hard. They protested when workmen dragged Cuauhtémoc from his perch, moved in on the Statue of Columbus (see cut). Their resentment grew when they learned that the Paseo would have a two-foot strip down the middle, planted to nopal and cactus. "These are the only places where pedestrians may now take refuge," screamed El Universal, "and they fill it with cactus...
...into business, become head of two loan companies, vice president of a radio-TV station, a director of other corporations. A devout Roman Catholic (he had a chapel built in his home so that priests could say Mass there), he was once supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. In 1944 Pope Pius XII made him a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword, a post entitling him to serve a turn of duty on the Vatican staff if he ever wants...
Craftsman. In Columbus, Ohio, Kenneth L. Scott, after admitting that he broke into eleven safes, assured police: "I'm the third best safecracker in the country, and I'm. not sure the other two are better...
Three others--William Tager '50, Donald Foy '51, and Leland Schoen '52--were named as delegates to the Students for Democratic Action convention which meets in Columbus, Ohio, on June...