Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Verbum Sap. In Martinsburg, W. Va., Farm Machinery Dealer Ray Albright put an ad in the Journal: ALL THIEVES please quit breaking into our store. We never leave any money around the place after closing hours...
...from Caddy. Sam Snead was born and raised in Ashwood, a hamlet near the mountain resort of Hot Springs, Va. and its famed golf hotel, the Homestead. The five Snead brothers begged broken-shafted clubs from the Homestead caddy master, and replaced their splintered wooden shafts with whittled hickory sticks or old buggy-whip handles. Sometimes they carved an entire driver from a hickory sapling with a knotty root...
...president of Alleghany Corp.; Earl E. T. Smith, New York Stock Exchange member and former husband of a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt; Dr. R. Walter Graham, Baltimore physician; William Landers of Utica, retired Central engineer; D. E. Taylor, president of West India Fruit and Steamship Co. of Norfolk, Va.; Frederick Lewisohn, New York Stock Exchange member; Richard M. Moss, president of Clinton Foods, Inc. of Manhattan; Mrs. Wallace; Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of the Indianapolis Star,and News; Orville Taylor, Chicago attorney; Andrew Van Pelt of Philadelphia, Alleghany Corp. director; William...
Retainer. In Lynchburg, Va., James D. Almond was fined $25 for trying to collect unemployment compensation for two weeks he had spent in jail...
Clean Sweep. In Wheeling, W. Va., ordered to "clear Market Street of bums," Rookie Patrolman Arthur McKenzie went to work, sent packing a banker, two insurance executives, a detective, two city councilmen...