Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before leaving for the West on Oct. 17, the President will spend Columbus Day, Oct. 12, in New York City...
...library were destroyed, the substance and art of its contents would not be lost. Eight years ago the Jesuit fathers of Missouri's Roman Catholic St. Louis University got permission to microfilm some 30,000 key Vatican Library manuscripts. Backed financially by the Knights of Columbus, they have now recorded a staggering 11 million pages from such works as St. Thomas Aquinas' original manuscript, Summa Contra Gentiles, and the famed 4th century Codex Vaticanus copy of the Bible (TIME, April...
Postage Due. In Columbus, Neb., G. G. Zellers received a letter mailed to him at 4:30 p.m. on April...
...didn't ever want to hear about Miss America again." Pressed for her life story, the onetime Miss Ohio said: "I was pretty naive when I was starting. Mercy, I was", after all, only 15. I came home and told my mother, 'I was chosen Miss Columbus, and they said it's because of my figure. Mother, what's a figure?' My mother said, 'It's none of your business...
...laymen and women) to work toward a goal of 50 new Catholic interracial councils (present total: 36). Then the delegates wound up with a duplicating machine full of resolutions with some strong words among the platitudes. One resolution condemned fraternal organizations, e.g., the Knights of Columbus, which blackball Negroes, even in the North; another denounced as "scandalous" the "many Catholic hospitals [which] practice policies of racial exclusion or segregation." A third was directed at President Eisenhower's "go slow" words on school integration: "At this critical time in world history, the people of the United States have a right...