Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the cooperation of both national committees, the Forum will present Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.), and Katherine St. George (R-N.Y.) to hammer at the administration, and J. Vaughn Gary (D-Va), and Leo O'Brien (D-N.Y.) to defend the Fair Deal, and stress the solidarity of their party...
...train-platform speech at Parkersburg, W. Va. last week, Harry Truman once again proved his speed in the catch-as-catch-can school of political debate. Full of fine indignation, the President labeled Republican opponents of his foreign policy as "these snollygosters."* Mr. Truman's tone left no doubt that a snollygoster was a low creature indeed, but few, if any, of his hearers knew what snollygoster meant. According to one austere authority, the word is "a lower grade of colloquialism." Of obscure origin, it was given classic definition in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, which in 1895 reported...
...Danville, Va. cops gave visiting motorists the benefit of a unique form of hospitality: instead of writing traffic tickets for overtime parking, the bluecoats simply dropped a nickel (from a fund supplied by the chamber of commerce) into the nearest parking meter, and passed...
...citizens of Charlottesville, Va. were a bit disconcerted at first. It was hard to know what to say when a child rang the doorbell and asked: "Are you emb-b-b-barrassed when you t-t-talk t-t-to a stutterer?" But by last week, Charlottesville had grown used to the question. It was all part of a special treatment, prescribed by the nearby Woodrow Wilson Speech Camp at the University of Virginia...
...June day last year, two Mennonite lay missionaries set out from their homes in Virginia as traveling evangelists. Lawrence Brunk and his brother George, a professor of Bible studies at Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, Va., had pooled their resources (mainly $35,000 which Lawrence had made on his chicken farm). They bought a tent big enough to seat 1,500 people, a truck to carry it and a trailer for Lawrence, his wife and three children to live...