Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, revealed that the airship ZRS-5 abuilding, sister ship of the Akron, will be named the Macon. His reasons: "It is a good short name of a thriving southern community, the name of a famous revolutionary general,*and it has the same number of letters as Akron. It also gives the South representation as the Akron does the Middle West and the Los Angeles the West...
Figure Skating- Two eleven-year-old British girls, Megan Taylor and Magdalen Colledge, amused the crowd. The U. S. champion, Maribel Vinson, and Belgian Mme Yvonne de Ligne, did well. But the best girl figure skater in the world was still 19-year-old Sonja Henje of Oslo, Norway. Behind her, on the stand, sat her immense, red-faced father, Wilhelm Henje. He said nothing. Mrs. Henje, however, told their daughter what part of the ice to use, instructed her to keep her beady toque straight on her head. Attached to her dress, Sonja Henje had a rabbit...
...Princeton chess team: the Belden-Stephens Trophy in the seventh tournament of the H. Y. P. D. College Chess League; with 7½ points to 6 for Harvard, 5½ for Dartmouth, 5 for Yale. ¶Roger F. Turner of Boston and Maribel Y. Vinson, 19, Radcliffe junior: respectively the national ice skating championship and the women's championship, each for the fifth successive year, at Manhattan's Ice Club. Following a flawless execution of the "school figures" (loop-change-loop, counter, bracket-change-bracket) Miss Vinson clinched her victory with a brilliant display of free-skating...
...House Georgia's Crisp proposed annihilating the Farm Board. Alabama's Almon would grant veterans 100% loans on their bonus certificates. Massachusetts' Tinkham wanted a Washington Hall of Fame and New York's Celler, a Negro industrial commission. Georgia's Vinson would build the Navy up by $760,000,000 to full treaty limits. New York's Bacon proposed bus and truck regulation by the I. C. C. Wet bills, including a constitutional amendment by Connecticut's Tilson to return liquor control to the States, glutted both houses. Texas' Blanton touched...
...Byrns of Tennessee, Appropriations: Collier of Mississippi, Ways and Means; Pou of North Carolina, Rules; Jones of Texas, Agriculture; Steagall of Alabama, Banking & Currency: Sumners of Texas, Judiciary: Rayburn of Texas, Interstate & Foreign Commerce; Dickstein of New York, Immigration; Linthicum of Maryland, Foreign Affairs; Quin of Mississippi, Military Affairs; Vinson of Georgia, Naval Affairs; Black of New-York, Claims; Mead of New York, Post Offices...