Word: va
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partisan issue. Democratic Senator Burke of Nebraska described the bill as ''the most direct attack on the independence of our judiciary which the country has seen." Democratic Senator King of Utah declared, 'T most certainly do not approve. . . ." Democratic Senator Glass, at home in Lynchburg. Va., snorted at newshawks, "I thought it was generally understood that I was opposed to any tinkering with the Supreme Court...
...week's end at Wheeling, W. Va.'s island in midriver, householders were scrubbing mud from their recently submerged floors, shoveling debris from their sidewalks. Portsmouth, Ohio, a sump within its $750,000 seawall which the flood had topped, watched the muddy waters gradually sink back through the sewer gates as the river receded. Cincinnati, perched on its hills, up to its waist in water, felt the chilly flood fall slowly back, trembled as its gas mains were reported leaking,, a bigger fire menace than when gas tanks bobbed among its factories in the flood (TIME...
...Princeton, N. J.; of heart disease; at Princeton. In the carnotite ore of Utah and Colorado ten years ago he discovered and refined the first U. S. radium. Died, Andrew Jackson Montague, 74, Democratic Representative from Virginia since 1913, onetime (1902-06) Governor; after long illness; in Urbanna, Va...
...heavily interested in National Lumber & Creosoting Co., which treats railroad ties and telegraph poles. For a strategic reason for the deal, it was necessary only to look at the Virginian's traffic, which is 90% bituminous coal. Its coal route over the Alleghenies from West Deepwater, W. Va. to deeper water at Hampton Roads, Va. is the shortest, easiest. And one of its best customers is the Koppers group of coke, gas and by-products companies, for all of which coal is the basic raw material. The Mellons, unlike some of their contemporaries, do not play the great game...
Resigned. Major General John Archer Lejeune, 70, U. S. M. C. retired, onetime (1920-29) commander of the Marine Corps; after eight years as superintendent of Virginia Military Institute; in Lexington, Va...