Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbus, Ohio...
Ernest Kahn '41, Easton Pa.; Martin Kalmanoff '41, Woodmere, L.I., N.Y.; Arthur B. Kern '41, Brooklyn N.Y.; Brian Kiely '43, Cincinnati, Ohio.; Marvin A. Klemes '42, Long Beach, L.I., N.Y.; Leif L. Dundsen '42, Columbus...
...Recently Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo of Mississippi asserted that Wendell Willkie's father had once lived in Columbus, Miss, under an assumed name: "John Stover." Last week indignant Willkie Democrats of Mississippi offered to give $1,000 to the Red Cross if anyone could prove it. At Columbus, 80-year-old Historian E. R. Hopkins cracked: "Senator Bilbo says a lot of things besides his prayers...
...Nearly all Midwest polls - Columbus Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Times, Scripps Howard's Ohio poll, etc. - showed Willkie still coming up, but more slowly than last fortnight...
Since the British overhauled and the Germans scuttled at sea the 32,000-ton Columbus (TIME, Jan. 1), the Empress of Britain was by far the largest ship sunk in World War II. For Germany she was a huge and tasty morsel to top off a feast of British tonnage which U-boats and bombers have lately claimed in the sea lanes north and west of Ireland. Last fortnight's claim of 327,000 tons in one week was upped to 490,000 tons in ten days, a good portion by Nazi bombers such as harpooned the Empress...