Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patronage machinery under Chief Dispenser Bill Boyle was greased to spin out job appointments in double-quick time. Open house at the White House was drawing congressional customers (about 90 last week). Kentucky's Virgil Chapman, who had ridden into the Senate on Truman's coattails and voted against him practically ever since, was in for a talk on,party principles-and party patronage! (Friendly Republicans were not overlooked. California's Representative Richard J. Welch and Oregon's Homer Angell found a willing presidential ear for their problems-coast shipping, irrigation, public power...
...Cleveland Orchestra-and gave the Bartok concerto its U.S. premiere. When Cleveland's Conductor Artur Rodzinski took over the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in 1943, he asked Tossy to play it again. That was the beginning. His performance left the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson "a little gasping. One is not used to this kind of work from violinists...
...State Bank of tiny (pop. 150) Virgil is a two-story, stucco-covered brick building on a nameless blacktop road. It has 500 depositors, $707,000 in deposits and assets, and five directors, most of them retired farmers, all but one, members of the same family. It is the sort of crib that "Pretty Boy" Floyd could crack while sucking tomato seeds from between his teeth...
...Virgil State Bank had reached the end of the line. There will be a stockholders' meeting this month, and the bank will probably shut down and pay off. Schramer's valedictory was sorrowful: "We've tried to fight it off, but when the cashier couldn't take it any more we decided to close the bank. There's nothing on earth got a farm beat...
...According to legend. Dido, daughter of the Tyrian King Mutton and founder of Carthage, committed suicide rather than marry an importunate African chief. Virgil shuffled because Wanter Aeneas was leaving...