Word: virginals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Virgin Islands, whither President Hoover was to go this week, got a new civil governor last week. The little minesweeper Grebe carried Dr. Paul M. Pearson, like the President a Quaker, into the harbor of St. Thomas while a Marine detachment shot off a 17-gun salute. The black population with its 5% sprinkling of whites massed in Emancipation Park to watch Governor Pearson take the oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department...
...bought the Virgin Islands, once famed as a buccaneer's resort, from Denmark for $25,000,000 in 1917 when it was feared Germany would establish a submarine base there. Until last week they were a neglected appendage of the Navy Department which used them as a coaling base. Their transfer to civil government by President Hoover was generally regarded as the first step in a program to demilitarize U. S. insular possessions...
...would be known that it was common to call any relation, especially cousins, as "brother." That James and Joses (John) were not the brothers of Jesus is clear from other passages in scripture, where they are explicitly called the sons of Alpheus, also called Cleophas, and Mary: not the Virgin Mary, who was the mother of Jesus, but a sister or a cousin to the Virgin Mary. Hence it is that James and Joses were only the cousins of Jesus and if this meaning is held for two of the parties, the same must be construed for Juda and Simon...
...night last week to take an immediate ten-day vacation to U. S. possessions in the Caribbean. Going by train to Old Point Comfort, Va., he would board the U. S. S. Arizona for her scheduled "shakedown" run after reconditioning. The cruise would be to Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Secretary of War Hurley, possibly Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, would accompany him. Mrs. Hoover would stay behind...
...Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John), bought from Denmark in 1917 for $25,000,000, presented a similar economic problem. Their 95% Negro population had been squeezed off the farming land. Their rum trade had been blighted by Prohibition. Their sugar plantations and factories were close to collapse. Last month following a six-month investigation by Chief Herbert Brown of the Bureau of Efficiency, President Hoover transferred the Islands' administration from the Navy to the Interior Department. To set up a new civil government and pull the Virgin Islanders out of their economic hole President Hoover appointed...