Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plaintiffs in the case are Negro workers who have brought action to enjoin the defendant corporation from discriminating at its housing development, and to prohibit the defendant Federal agencies, the FBA ad VA, from guaranteeing purchase mortgages in the project as long as the discrimination continues...
When a friend suggested that the youngster look for work at the race track in Charles Town, W. Va., willing Willie went down and picked up a job cleaning stalls for a small-time owner named Norman Corbin. Before long he was working as an exercise boy, and two years later, in October 1952, Corbin gave him his first mount. On his third try, riding a horse named Nickleby, Willie won his first race. Overnight, Willie became one of the hottest riders on the half-mile "bull rings" around West Virginia and Maryland...
...program together but how to hire a hall and scale seat prices, how to find a first cellist and how to wangle newspaper space. Helping small-town symphonies with such chores is the task of the 13-year-old American Symphony Orchestra League, Inc. (headquarters: Charleston, W. Va.). The league has been taking a hard look at the music business and in the process, it has uncovered a mass of hitherto uncharted specifics. Item: community orchestras lose about 35% of their subscribers a year, hence must continually make new contacts. Item: it takes an average of 20 contacts to sell...
Good newspaper editors constantly war -and with occasional success-against the use of clichés in writing. But Editor Frank Knight of the Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette thinks that the time has come to go to war against another tired type of journalism-the picture cliché. Thereby he has kicked off a lively argument in the November Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors...
First with the News. In Bristol, Va., the Herald-Courier's circulation department received an apologetic cancellation notice: "We are stopping the paper because our maid won't prepare breakfast until she has read it, and this makes us late for our appointments...