Word: staunton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study of union, non-union and open shop labor conditions that Vice President Staunton B. Peck of the Link-Belt Co. concluded last week for the National Association of Manufacturers, naturally hoped to put a rosy lacquer on the open shop principle of employing labor, that is, of making no discrimination against union or non-union labor, just so that the union organizations do not pester the employers...
...Staunton, Va., six cops made a bet with six reverend preachers. Police against preachers would play volleyball. If the police won, the preachermen would go to jail for an hour. If the preachers won, the cops would go to church the next Sunday and stay for the sermon. ... On Wednesday the games were played. Next Sunday in the front pew of the Episcopal church sat the police force. "God" cried Volleyman-Preacherman J. Lewis Gibbs in the pulpit "is on the side that hits the hardest volleyball...
...children were released from Ellis Island when it was proved, Admiral McCully being a bachelor of large independent income, that they were unlikely to become public charges. Now their ages vary from 10 to 19 years. The oldest, Nikolai Smnov, is enrolled in the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton...
...Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Memorial Association, which plans shortly to raise $500,000 for a memorial to the late President at his birthplace in Staunton...
...said that when the British, under General Tarleton, drove the Virginia Legislature from Charlottesville to Staunton, volunteers were called for to prevent the passage of the British through the mountains at Rockfish Gap. History tells us that Mrs. Lewis called to her side her three young sons, aged 17, 15 and 13 years, and made them fly to the defense of their country, their native land...