Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James E. McNutty, of Oak Park, Illinois and Thayer; David B. Moseley, of Buffalo and Wigglesworth; Donald I. Perry, of Apley; Stanley Rich, of New York and Stoughton; Joseph H. Sharlitt, of Cleveland and Hollis; Dean Hennessy, of Chicago and Matthews; William Wolf, of Dorchester; Andrew J. Wright, of Columbus, Ohio, and Holworthy...
Professor Morison is noted for his book, "Three Centuries of Harvard," and for his spectacular duplication of the voyage of Columbus. The American Civilization Group is sponsoring the meeting tonight...
Shannon McCune, of Columbus, Ohio, as Visiting Instructor in Geography; Ph.D. Clark University...
...storm had begun by pounding over Watling Island in the Bahamas-probably the San Salvador which was Christopher Columbus' first landing place-silencing the Government wireless. At Panacea, Fla. five fishermen were drowned when the deep boiled like a pot. Near Moultrie, Ga. a schoolgirl was killed when she stepped on a storm-whipped live wire. At Dinner Key the wind blew 123 miles per hour at the Pan-American Airways base. Houses crumpled, boats swamped, streets flooded. Part of the metal dome of the State Capitol at Tallahassee was torn...
Died. Harry Micajah Daugherty, 81, ex-U.S. Attorney General (1921-24); of heart disease; in Columbus, Ohio. In 1920 "President-maker" Daugherty maneuvered his longtime crony Warren Gamaliel Harding to the Republican nomination as a compromise candidate, got the Attorney Generalship as his reward. A year later his impeachment was sought on 14 charges of malfeasance but the move fell through in the House. A Senate committee prying into the "Teapot Dome" oil scandal suspected his involvement; it was unable to prove it. Shortly afterward he resigned under pressure. He was indicted for graft involving the Alien Property Custodian...