Word: norfolkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also easily the biggest thing that happened in the U. S. last week. For an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to broadcast on any controversial subject was unprecedented. For an Associate Justice to deal with the topic that awaited Hugo Black was wildly sensational. When he arrived in Norfolk, Va. last week after a tour of Europe and told newspaper reporters that he would not speak for fear of being misquoted (see p. 50), his prospective broadcast instantly became radio's biggest attraction since Edward VIII's abdication. Wildly delighted with such a victory over the press...
...chill quiet of a Virginia dawn last week, a small vessel lapped its way into the Chesapeake Bay toward Norfolk. Aboard was the man who for nearly three weeks had been the world's most sought after newspaper figure. With little of the understanding of or co-operation toward the press which characterized him when he was making glowing headlines far himself as the Senate's Great Investigator, Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, whom newspaper investigation had just revealed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. was slipping home from Europe as quietly as possible...
...made the first contact with another diffident news character, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, homeward bound on the cruiser U.S.S. Memphis after his flight to Paris. Just as in 1927, a boatload of reporters had been out all night in a motor launch named Pirate just in case the City of Norfolk suddenly dropped Mr. Justice Black before docking at Norfolk. Only result of this precaution, as it turned out, was that the Pirate'?, bedraggled crew boarded the liner a little later than the landlubbing newsmen who had stayed ashore...
...Hearst reporter who had pressed him for a statement on his Klan affiliation "I don't see you! I don't know you! And I don't answer you!" But as he faced no less than 100 newshawks who swarmed outside the City of Norfolk's, Cabin 18, the newest member of the Supreme Court was affability itself. Addressing Jesse Frederick Essary, Baltimore Sun man who is Doyen of the Washington press corps, as "Fred," he drew him into the cabin, consulted with him and then sent him back out into the corridor with word that...
...first place, the Council has endeavored to engage one of the largest schedules in its history, with projected trips and matches ranging from Vassar to the Norfolk Prison Colony. Secondly, and unlike past debating practice, the largest possible number of men will be allowed to participate in these outside contests. The Council is exercising every effort to line up all qualified men on Harvard debating teams...