Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...episode was related by William Taylor Johnson of Virginia Beach, Va., a contractor who built five Powell-approved projects. In August 1950, he said, Powell came from Washington and went to the nearby Dunes Club to gamble. "He had quite a few drinks" and lost heavily, Johnson said. At dawn they returned to Johnson's home but were followed by the Dunes Club operators, who demanded $3,000 to cover Powell's losses at dice. Johnson related that he gave Powell money to pay off the gamblers...
Later on, comes General Lee's farewell order to the Army of Northern Virginia (read by Lee's 77-year-old cousin once-removed, the Rev. Edmund Jennings Lee of Shepherdstown, W. Va.), and finally a rousing performance of Dixie that ends in a high-pitched, blood-chilling rebel yell. Bound into the album are 32 pages of pictures and texts by Civil War Experts Bruce Catton and Clifford Dowdey...
Delaware was not the only infected area last week. In Georgia, 24 knights of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing white robes, gathered around a burning cross near Atlanta to hear two speakers rail against the "black-robed buzzards of the Supreme Court." In Marion County, W. Va., Judge J. Harper Meredith had to issue an injunction to stop 53 white parents from threatening teachers on their way to the partially segregated Annabelle School. Such obstructionism, said the judge, "is a rebellion against the government . . . If necessary, I'll fill the jail until their feet are sticking out the windows...
Last week the town of Follansbee, W. Va. (pop. 4,435) was up in arms over the latest Richmond deal. What upset the townspeople was an announcement by Republic Steel Corp. that it would buy most of the production facilities of 142-year-old Follansbee Steel Corp., the company that gave the town its name, pack them on freight trains and move them to Gadsden, Ala. The seller: Fred Richmond. Since Follansbee employs 90% of the town's work force, the deal spelled disaster. Said Mayor Frank Basil: "There won't be anything here to keep this community...
Saunders Redding, 48, is a good-looking Negro professor of English at Hampton Institute (Va.), one of the nation's best Negro colleges. One spring day in 1952, the phone rang in his office and a voice said: "This is the State Department. Would you be available for a temporary foreign assignment?" Professor Redding was available; the assignment was India. That summer he traveled 25,000 miles through India, lecturing on America to tens of thousands of curious and often hostile students and professors...