Word: charlestoning
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...Passed a bill introduced by West Virginia's Smith to sell the Navy's arsenal at South Charleston, W. Va.; sent it to the Senate...
Peter Gething, 45, who says he was once a reporter on the London Times and a major in the British Army, is the impecunious owner-editor of a struggling, two-year-old, weekly Charleston, S. C. newspaper called the Record. Edward F. Hutton is a rich, imperiously handsome Manhattan sportsman, investment banker and board chairman of General Foods Corp. who likes to shoot ducks on his Combahee River plantation near Charleston...
...from increasing, the circulation of the Charleston Record soon dropped to zero, for the simple reason that it ceased to appear. Editor Gething explained that there had been a mechanical breakdown. Last week it became known that South Carolina's Governor Blackwood, in order to express the hospitable sentiments of his State, had made Edward F. Hutton a Lieutenant Colonel on his staff...
...There must be no drinking whatsoever," declared tight-lipped General Charles Pelot ("Fight 'Em All") Summerall, retired U. S. Army Chief of Staff, when in 1931 he assumed the presidency of The Citadel, South Carolina's military college at Charleston. General Summerall's order was at once amplified by The Citadel's Commandant, Lieut. Colonel John Walton Lang, who announced that no cadet might "carry, transport, move, hold, possess, own, have . . . receive, accept, give, offer, sell, buy, or drink" any intoxicating liquors...
Last week Commandant Lang took further steps. He asked Federal prohibitors and Charleston authorities to help keep spirits away from The Citadel. While the cadets were away for their holidays, chicken wire was stretched over the campus gates. Cadets returning from leave must doff their greatcoats, open all their bundles for inspection...