Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, from his goulash days as a ward heeler in Cleveland's working-class districts to the governor's mansion in Columbus, Lausche (rhymes with how she) has successfully violated the ground rules and spectacularly bucked bosses, bigots and big shots. Nearly every time that he has run for office Ohio's tabulating machines have clanked out record-breaking jackpots...
...their eroding handiwork after a mine is depleted. Under his direction 27 million trees have been planted to replenish the state's dwindling forests. His position on civil rights might give pause to his Southern supporters in the showdown. During the Democrats' two-year heyday in Columbus, Lausche nearly won passage of a Fair Employment Practices Act with enforcement features. Said Lausche in his 1955 message to the legislature : "The decision of the United States Supreme Court requiring the schools of our country to provide equality of teaching services for our children . . . meets with my complete approval...
Increasingly, McCarthy has taken his one-man show out of the Senate and into the back-country. Speaking invitations and Americanism awards from veterans' groups, Knights of Columbus chapters, and other organizations of public-spirited citizens are always forthcoming when the Senator arrives in the neighborhood. Yet even some of the traditional centers of support appear to have cooled slightly in their enthusiasm for McCarthy, or at least in their outrage at his enemies. In past years, a visit to Boston, for example, was certain to induce an outpouring of loyalty among large elements of the population, much as Antaeus...
Much of the varsity's hope will be placed in the two-mile relay team which will run against Providence, Boston University, and Yale. The latter ran a 7:58 in the Knights of Columbus Meet two weeks ago. Since this is the varsity record for this event, in order to win, the varsity will have to break its own record. Leading off for the varsity will be Ottis Gates, with Ken Wilson, second, and Phil Williams, third. Jim Cairns will anchor in this event...
Joel Cohen, the varsity's ace hurdler, came within a step or two of pulling a major upset in the annual Knights of Columbus Meet at the Boston Garden Saturday evening. Cohen placed third in the 45-yard high hurdles behind Harrison Dillard, the Male Athlete of the Year who won his eighteenth consecutive K. of C. race...