Word: norfolkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geography on Monday and Tuesday at 3.15 o'clock. They portray the voyage of the Harvard Juniors on the destroyer U. S. S. Tillman from Boston to Bermuda, and the trip of the Sophomores and Freshmen of Harvard, Georgia Tech., North-western, and Yale from Boston to Halifax and Norfolk on the U. S. S. Arkansas; admission is free to all members of the University...
...story told last year by Gaston B. Means, shifty sleuth, in The Strange Death of President Harding (TIME, March 31, 1930). Actual author of this tale, wherein Mrs. Harding was supposed to have poisoned her husband as a result of the Nan Britton affair, was May Dixon Thacker of Norfolk, Va. In an article in Liberty last week Mrs. Thacker repudiated the whole Means story, lamented that she had been badly duped. Three months ago, she said, she was told by "one of the highest officials in Washington" that "it was positively a physical impossibility" for Sleuth Means ever...
Nine travelers who booked passage on the inaugural flights of the new Ludington Line service between Norfolk and Washington one day last week were astonished to find there was no charge. Five who had paid fares in advance received their money back before the plane took off. Reason: the first flights were made before a State license was issued to the company...
...Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Dispatch appeared the following advertisement...
From ship to ship the message passed, from the Rodney to the Nelson, the Hood, the Repulse, the York, Dorsetshire, Norfolk, Warspite and Malaya. All eyes were on the Valiant. Would she obey orders? If she did it seemed certain that the rest of the fleet would follow. But on the Valiant boatswains piped themselves blue in the face. The crew remained below decks. Officers had an anxious huddle on the quarterdeck. Conscious that the eyes of Britain were on them, they attempted to hoist anchor themselves. Forward they found two pickets of thick-necked sailors standing guard over...