Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, news from the home front stiffened opposition to any other kind of work law at all. The Mead (ex-Truman) Committee had swooped into the Norfolk Navy Yard, triumphantly brought out a report of labor surplus and waste there. Congressmen's mail told of bad management and "stretch-outs" (making a little job last a long time). Typical report: "I have worked for two weeks on a job I could have finished in two days...
...lord of a horsy 1,000-acre Warrenton, Va. plantation with a 72-room manor house and 70 outbuildings; and tall, svelte Jean Esther Outland, 23, pretty blond gym teacher at Virginia's College of William and Mary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norfolk...
...drawing room of Honingham Hall in England's Norfolk County, Sir Eric Teichman sat before a cosy fire and was content. Lunch was over and quiet lay on the big house. Then, from outside, came the sound of shots. Sir Eric, 60-year-old retired British diplomat and expert on Far Eastern affairs, rose from his armchair, growled to Lady Ellen: "I'm going out to stop this damned poaching." Unarmed, he set out to stop...
Perhaps the most extraordinary religious service of World War II was reported in last week's Churchman. It was described in a letter written to The Rev. E. Ruffin Jones, rector of St. Andrew's Church, Norfolk, Va., by a onetime William & Mary athlete, now a Marine lieutenant...
This event was reported by the first U.S. newsman to enter Paris, TIME'S Chief War Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker. With LIFE'S Photographer Robert Capa, and Private Hubert Stickland of Norfolk, Va. as driver, Werten-baker's jeep drove directly behind General Leclerc's armored car, as French forces entered the city through the Porte d'Orleans at 9:40 a.m., Friday...