Word: norfolkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover went down from Washington overnight aboard the S. S. Sequoia, a small Department of Commerce inspection boat. Landing near Norfolk, he went on out to the windswept dunes at the cape. There were gathered 10,000 people, including Governor Pollard of Virginia and Episcopal Bishop Arthur C. Thomson. Great black clouds whipped by a strong wind massed overhead. The President took his place in the open grandstand. Angry lightning glittered across the sky. The singing of "America" was accompanied by the boom of thunder. The wind rose to a shriek. "Our Father Who art in Heaven," began Bishop...
...Against Norfolk & Western R. R. is pending a tentative I. C. C. recapture order...
Today at 4 o'clock on the Divinity courts the University tennis team, undefeated so far this season, will meet Holy Cross. The University team defeated William and Mary 9 to 0, Norfolk C. C. S to 1, Virginia 7 to 1, Navy 7 to 2, and Princeton...
...Scripps and General Manager William Waller Hawkins set about "cleaning up the territory" wherever there was one newspaper too many. Not counting merged properties they now have 25 newspapers. Sometimes, as in Akron (Times-Press), Knoxville (News-Sentinel), Memphis (Press-Scimitar) they have bought. Elsewhere, as in Des Moines, Norfolk, Terre Haute, Sacramento, they have moved out. For Scripps-Howard, no cluttered fields...
...Norfolk, Virginia, the team will play three matches, starting with William and Mary on Tuesday, April 14. Two days later the University racquetmen will play the Norfolk Country Club, and on the seventeenth they will meet the University of Virginia on its courts. On the way north the team will stop off at Annapolis to play the Naval Academy on April 15. A match with Princeton on the twentieth will end the spring vacation schedule...