Word: hampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lumber & Creosoting Co., which treats railroad ties and telegraph poles. For a strategic reason for the deal, it was necessary only to look at the Virginian's traffic, which is 90% bituminous coal. Its coal route over the Alleghenies from West Deepwater, W. Va. to deeper water at Hampton Roads, Va. is the shortest, easiest. And one of its best customers is the Koppers group of coke, gas and by-products companies, for all of which coal is the basic raw material. The Mellons, unlike some of their contemporaries, do not play the great game of railroad strategy...
...school at first had only a half-dozen teachers, about 50 students. It now employs 90 teachers, has an enrollment of over 1,000. In 1912 Mannes founded a settlement in Harlem out of gratitude to Negro Teacher Douglas, often gave recitals for Negroes at Hampton Institute, still serves as a trustee for colored Fisk University in Tennessee...
...week in its 13,000 branches (membership: 577,000) an attitude of "anxious concern." The Pauline Revere who is at tempting to spread news of the King & Mrs. Simpson among organized British Mothers was identified as Mrs. Frank Theodore Woods, widow of the Bishop of Winchester, who resides at Hampton Court in an apartment at the disposal of King Edward. In the circumstances His Majesty is unlikely to turn Mrs. Woods out of Hampton Court, and she was reported to have laid before members of the Central Council of the Mothers Union a proposal that Bachelor Edward VIII be waked...
Well rewarded were the troubled Southern doctors by two medical diversions at the convention: 1) an operation by which Drs. Walter Freeman & James Winston Watts of Washington actually cut the ability to worry out of the brain; 2) operations by which Dr. Hugh Hampton Young of Baltimore remodels anal, urinary and genital defects. Psychiatrists and brain surgeons stormed at each other concerning the good sense of Drs. Freeman & Watts's work...
...colleges surveyed in Alabama gave a total of 1240 votes for Roosevelt and 183 for Landon. Hampton Institute in Virginia gave Roosevelt 394 to Landon's 124. The closest vote in Southern colleges was at Washington and Lee, where Landon showed 314 against Roosevelt...