Word: newports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House Guest. In Newport News, Va., Bobby Aycock, 42, turned over to police by a married couple who came home and found him asleep in their bed, explained: "I guess I lost my way. I normally sleep about eight blocks farther uptown...
...ship that would do it, if any could, was the new $70 million S. S. United States, biggest liner ever built in a U.S. yard, which will make her maiden voyage for the U.S. Lines Co. on July 3. Last week she slipped from her dock in the Newport News shipyard for her first trial...
ARTHUR TUCKERMAN NEWPORT...
...turning against their fellow man because of race or color, it is heartening to see among us a man of a race that is one of the oldest and most cultured in the world." The guest: Rabbi Theodore Lewis, spiritual director of 189-year-old Congregation Jeshuath Israel in Newport, R.I. Rabbi Lewis, wearing his black skullcap and a dazzling green tie, stood up to acknowledge the cheering "Caed Mile Failte" (100,000 Welcomes) of his fellow Irishmen...
...limited period, was dropped in 1872. After the Civil War, U.S. capitalism began to spawn millionaires, and millionaires begot mass envy and a burning sense of social injustice. The eyes of Southerners and Westerners saw hundreds of cigar-smoking millionaires swarming like cuttlefish around New York and Newport harbors. This contrast tells the story: in 1843, there were only 20 millionaires in the whole U.S. In 1909, the 92 members of the U.S. Senate included 17 millionaires-15 Republicans and two Democrats...