Word: norfolkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-three years ago a young Norfolk lawyer received a letter from a member of the Virginia Corporation Commission : "I have carefully considered your application for a charter for your hybrid and mongrel banking institution. Frankly, I don't know what it is. It isn't a savings bank; it isn't a state or national bank; it isn't a charity. It isn't anything I ever heard of before. Its principles seem sound, however, and its purposes admirable. But the reason that I am going to grant a charter is because I believe...
Last week a bull blundered into a small antique shop at rustic Fakenham in Norfolk. Within, pricing china, was Her Majesty, white-haired Queen Mary. Eyeing the bull steadily, Queen Mary retreated three paces while clerks coaxed the animal out, without damage...
Thayer 59: John D. Gordon Jr. '30, of Norfolk, Va. (St. George's School) Cum Laude. Now an instructor in English...
...Quantico the 7th Regiment of Marines, Colonel Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams commanding, studied maps of Havana and Santiago, practiced the "occupation and pacification of towns," while awaiting overseas orders. When a formation of six big Navy seaplanes whizzed over Cuba in a non-stop record flight from Norfolk to Panama natives thought U. S. forces had already intervened...
...twin-motored Navy flying boats skittered across the blue waters of Norfolk Harbor one afternoon last week, took off in perfect formation and bored south. Each was manned by two officers, four enlisted men. Each was completely equipped with machine guns and bomb racks. Around the airdrome there was much well-mannered excitement, but all that officials would admit was that Squadron 5F under Lieut.-Commander Donald M. Carpenter was flying to Panama- purely routine. Few hours later the Press, already excited by the naval mobilization in Cuban waters headlined: SIX NAVY PLANES ON MYSTERY HOP. Into the Naval Bureau...