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Actually, if religion is to become a key issue, it will probably be in West Vir ginia's two southernmost election districts (most of the state's 95,000 Catholics live in the four central and northern districts). "We don't expect the Bible Belt preachers to hold meetings and pledge their congregations against Kennedy as they did to Al Smith," said a politician last week, "and we don't expect crosses to be burned in the hinterland, but the preachers will be talking and so will their congregations." Humphrey's backers have already made...
This was the 21st time in the war that the President had been forced to seize a war-essential plant because of labor trouble. Strikes breaking out again in the coal fields of Pennsylvania and West Vir ginia seemed about to swell the list : with 33 mines already being operated by the Government, new walkouts last week left 30 mines and 12,000 miners idle and -presumably - waiting for the Army to come...
...debunking job, The Way Our People Lived includes eleven sober chapters crawl ing with facts (most of them curious) about the day-to-day living habits, laws and institutions of nine American genera tions. Typical chapters: A Day in a Vir ginia Planter's Life; A Puritan Village in 1680; New York in 1008. Some odd ments...
...four Smith children - Lawrence Byron, Sally Jane, Mary Ann and Vir ginia Lee, aged 4 to 14 - sang Happy Birthday...
...last week's excursion, the corporation chartered two Pullmans, took along Mr. & Mrs. George Smith of WWVA, as chaperons. In Manhattan all paid a preliminary visit to the Fair, that night rehearsed from five till nine. They rehearsed again next morning, attended West Vir ginia Day at the Fair, that night attended Hellzapoppin, where the Steele Sisters joined the fun, sang from the stage. After Sunday's broadcast the party pulled out at 9:35 p. m., got home in time for work Monday...