Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...published a letter in a Jewish newspaper describing a Messinger mayoralty as an utter nightmare. While Giuliani distanced himself from this attack, he later implied that Messinger (who is Jewish) does not care about the city's Italian-American and Roman Catholic communities because she did not attend the Columbus Day Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and dropped out of the city's holiday parade early (comments for which he later apologized...
...Columbus Day parade has been run by 85-year-old nuns for the past 50 years and now 20-year-olds are starting to step up," he said...
...final speakers of the evening, Morgan F. R. Andrews, a part-time Extension School student, described how he placed fake parking tickets on cars around Cambridge, bearing the message, "Happy Columbus...
...evening's goal, said organizer Desiree R. Martinez, was not to protest Columbus...
...event was designed to convey the message that "Columbus Day is not a day of celebration for Native Americans," she said, adding that Columbus's 1492 arrival in the North American continent "started the decimation of Native Americans in the Americas...