Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rare Agreement. The Republicans lost the three big ones-mayor of New York City, governor of New Jersey and U.S. Representative from New Jersey's Sixth District. They lost some smaller ones too, e.g., mayors of Columbus and Toledo. Ohio. When the results rattled in over the press wires, Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell rubbed his hands and came forth with a statement: "The results . . . disclose ... a significant loss of confidence in the G.O.P...
Hardly had North American Aviation, Inc. rolled out the first production model of its new F-100 supersonic Super Sabre fighter last week when all production stopped; Out from the factories at Los Angeles, Fresno, Calif, and Columbus, Ohio marched 27,000 members of the C.I.O. United Auto Workers in the first strike against the company in twelve years...
...funeral pyre intended for Joaquin's eventual use. The place ran on Joaquin's Law: no whisky before noon. On neighboring slopes, he planted some 75,000 trees. In 1892, in the Holy Grotto, as Joaquin called his writing room, he penned his best known poem, Columbus ("Sail on! Sail on! And on!") and got $50 for it. Later, when the poem had become a schoolroom staple, a W.C.T.U. member quizzed Joaquin on his inspiration. "Whisky, ma'am," said Joaquin...
Discussing Dr. Ernest Jones's biography of Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (see BOOKS), Critic Lionel Trilling, writing in the New York Times this week, expressed a thought for Columbus Day. Said Trilling: "[Freud] lived by the inner light; he saw life under the aspect of personal heroism and believed that virtue consisted in making truth prevail against the resistance of society . . . Such a personality makes but a limited appeal to our increasingly 'other-directed' society with its ideal of blandness and cooperation and its suspiciousness of personal preeminence and self-assertion . . . A few years ago, a hostile biographer...
Freshman proctor Bradford P. Colcord 2L celebrated Columbus Day by sinking a 212 yard hole...