Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seat of Learning. In Lynchburg, Va., when a radio station suggested a Junior Town Meeting of the Air for students, the school board opposed it because controversial subjects might be discussed...
Four Nieman Fellows and Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation, announced last night the 1948 Wendell L. Willkie Awards for Negro Journalism. Two southern newspapers, the Norfolk Va. Journal and Guide and the Atlanta Daily World are the recipients...
...snorkel was devised by Manhattan's Duplex Electric Co., which has also installed two others (at the American National Bank of Portsmouth, Va. and St. Louis' Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co.). Colorado State Bank's President B. F. Clark, 89, plunked down $4,000 to get one, spent another $4,000 excavating Teller Gibson's cage. By last week, the snorkel had proved so popular that some 85 customers a day were using...
Circumstantial. In Arlington, Va., Robert L. Thomas was acquitted of a numbers writing charge when he came up with the perfect defense: he couldn't write...
When he enlisted in the Navy, Clark Council Hamilton, a fair-skinned, brown-eyed young fellow, listed himself as a white man. Last year, after he got out of the service, he went to Roanoke, Va., married a redheaded, 19-year-old white girl named Florence Hammond, whom he had met while she was selling popcorn at a local movie house. Florence's family were semiliterate Virginia dirt farmers. At first they welcomed Clark. But after a while his mother-in-law began to resent him-she still wanted Florence tied to her apron strings...