Word: va
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alleged violations of SEC regulations. This quieted SEC but brought a court petition from nine Fidelity shareholders asking that it be put into receivership for insolvency. While Fidelity voluntarily ceased selling certificates and making payments, the case dragged through several postponements in Federal District Court of Wheeling, W. Va., headquarters of the company...
...Five nights before his 57th birthday, Franklin Roosevelt motored over to Fort Myer, Va. to a gala Army horseshow, proceeds of which (around $3,000) began this year's anti-infantile paralysis collection in his honor. With him he took Mrs. Roosevelt, horse-loving Harry Hopkins, and Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, currently under fire in the House...
...Bloxom, Va...
Indicted at Hanover Courthouse, Va. as a hit-&-runner, ex-Ambassador (to Germany) William E. Dodd pleaded innocence, said he didn't know his car struck and injured 4-year-old Negro Gloria Grimes...
...Committee, headed by Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, D., Va., and heavily Democratic, fixed the projected appropriation at $725,000,000, specified that it must be apportioned over the full five months ahead, and moved to void Mr. Roosevelt's recent order blanketing 33,000 in Works Progress Administration personnel under civil service by directing that none of the new appropriation be used to pay salaries of those so blanketed...