Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the Courthouse. Early dealers had their problems. One Ohio dealer worriedly asked Ford if he should bet a competitor $500 that the model S Ford could beat a rival car to Columbus and back. Wrote back confident Mr. Ford: "Is it any credit for the U.S. to whip Venezuela? Take a bet like that with any car." To make a sale, a Kentucky dealer had to drive a Ford up the courthouse steps to prove that the car was as sturdy as a horse. For others who also raised this point, Ford had a brochure: "Autos do the work...
After a lost Weekend, the varsity baseball team faces a late dinner today, following a game with Cornell on Soldiers Field at 4:55 p.m. The Crimson lost to Army Friday, 2 to 1, and to Columbus, 5 to 6, Saturday...
...late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the "public service" prize has always gone to a daily, usually a big one. This week, for the first time in the history of the prizes, the "public service" award for 1952 went to two country weeklies, published in North Carolina's Columbus County: the Whiteville News Reporter (circ. 5,007) and the Tabor City Tribune (circ...
...weeklies won their prize for stopping an invasion. The invaders: the Ku Klux Klan, which swarmed into Columbus County from neighboring counties in 1950 and began to terrorize whites and Negroes alike. News Reporter Editor Willard Cole, 46, and Tribune Editor Horace Carter, 32, locked arms for a long, tough battle. Branding the Klan "a [bunch of] gangsters," Cole and Carter, both native Tarheels and longtime friends, fought month after month with front-page editorials, dug up proof of K.K.K. floggings and atrocities, kept guns in their homes for their own protection...
Playing It Safe. In Columbus, Ohio, State Treasurer Roger Tracy was inclined to agree with the man who sent him $220 and an anonymous letter from Jamestown, Tenn., reading: "I am a World War I veteran. I don't know just how long I was in Ohio before I joined the Army, but I drew a little bonus, and I did not make any untrue statement to get it, but I am returning it. I guess you think I'm crazy. Well maybe...