Word: va
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: For the less chemically-minded TIME readers, why not designate "Cohen & Corcoran"* (TIME, Sept. 12) as the "china-eggs" of the Administration, in that "they promote action without taking any part in it?" MRS. JAS. DEB. WALBOCH Hollins, Va...
...rats" begin arriving this week at the Episcopal High School, in Alexandria, Va. By next week they will be learning to address their schoolmates as "gen'elmen." To be a "rat" (nickname for a new boy) is a special distinction this fall. For The High School (as it is known throughout the South) is starting its 100th sparkling year...
Married. Martha Eccles Dodd Roberts, 26), daughter of onetime anti-Nazi U. S. Ambassador to Germany William Edward Dodd; and Alfred Kaufman Stern. 40, Manhattan housing expert; both for the second time; in Round Hill, Va...
...carrying out his second aim, Director Cahill has shown himself a remarkably astute social engineer. His first move was to make hefty, dark-eyed, Thomas C. Parker of Richmond, Va., his Assistant and Regional Director for the South. Parker, like Cahill, was devoted to the idea of building up community art centres. They began in the South, where Holger Cahill had observed the greatest need. The First Federal-sponsored community centre was started by Director Parker in Raleigh, N. C., in January 1936. Since then Assistant Parker, operating from his office in the Project's old building on Washington...
...regime of Franklin Roosevelt often at odds with U. S. airlines, last week sent them an amiable invitation: to submit bids for mail contracts on two experimental hauls, a 465-mile route between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and a 413-mile loop from Pittsburgh through Clarksburg and Huntington, W. Va. and back to Clarksburg. Catch: without landing, the mailplanes must pick up and deliver air mail at towns scattered from ten to 30 miles apart on each route...