Word: va
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairfax Courthouse, Va., Norman Malay drove his truck at a moderate speed oh a level road, inexplicably turned a complete somersault...
HOLBERT ALLISON Draper, Va...
Last July Congress authorized the Smith Committee to investigate the Wagner Act, to find out whether the Labor Board had been fair, to see what amendments, if any, were needed, and gave it $50,000 as a starter. To tall, solemn, silent Representative Howard Smith of Broad Run, Va., who has hated the New Deal ever since it tried to purge him last year, it gave the delicate job of chairman. With wealthy Lawyer Edmund Toland and 22 attorneys assisting (called brilliant legal lights by the Right, called tools of reaction by the Left), it checked on the work...
...champion steer at the Exposition. Miss Clara Nell Lavender, 18, of Jefferson, Ga., had canned 4,976 pints of fruits, vegetables, juices, jams, jellies and pickles, thereby winning 4-H kudos. Declared healthiest 4-H specimens were "four strong boys and two comely girls" (Warren Cales, 18, Sandstone, W. Va.; Richard Crane, 17, Rushville, Ind.; Carlisle Klein, 18, Black River Falls, Wis.; Leslie Warrant, 16, Kasota, Minn.; Ruth Fitzenreiter, 16, Bel, La., and Joann Parks. 15. Liberty, Ind.). An invigorating press release announced that all six drink milk and eat plenty of vegetables, added pointedly that five drink "no coffee...
More than 500 applied in the two years the fellowships have been offered. Last year nine newspaper men studied at the university and this year twelve are studying. Represented this year are the United Press, the Associated Press, New York Herald Tribune, Petersburg (Va.) Progress-Index, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, United States News, Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Baltimore Evening Sun, Bismarck (N. Dak.) Leader, and the Boston Herald, and the Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Miss.) ford, author; Walter Lippman...