Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbus, Ohio...
...very nice thing." said White House Secretary Steve Early, contrasting this behavior with John Lewis' goings-on in Columbus...
...Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! was the tune for the bands one morning last week when John L. Lewis walked into a hall at Columbus, Ohio. On the platform he paused for a word with his daughter, Kathryn, large and placid in a black dress. He mouthed his after-breakfast cigar, chatted, paced up & down until an introductory orator droned: "I give you . . ." Only then did the finest actor in U. S. Labor turn to the crowd. Grey hairs laced his black mane. His squat body was taut and still. One hand brushed at his eyes, at the arching black eyebrows...
...Llewellyn Lewis was in his 60th year, his 21st as president of the mine workers, his fifth at the helm of C. I. O. He was an emigrant Welsh miner's brat in Iowa when, this day 50 years ago, 198 men from the coal fields met in Columbus to weld their various feuding unions into one United Mine Workers of America. Behind him and his 2,400 jubilee delegates were men long dead: John Bates, who founded the first U. S. miners' union in 1849, and failed; the thousands of British diggers who flocked over...
...then that the expedition turned toward the American shores and followed the route taken by Columbus. The sources of information for this route were old manuscripts and records of his voyages. After a visit to the Canary Islands, the ships headed toward Triuidad. Then they followed the coast of South and Central America according to the courses, mapped out by the old records, when they left the island of Triuidad which they reached on December...