Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shearer appeared on the Washington scene in 1924 as a naval expert, the inventor of a one-man torpedo. When the U. S. S. Washington was towed off the Virginia Capes for sinking by airplane bombs, he rushed into court, vainly sought an injunction to prevent the Navy from destroying this vessel under the terms of Washington Arms Treaty. Later he admitted that Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Anglophobe, had paid the cost of that empty exploit...
...Picalas made 60 gals, of elderberry wine. It contained 5% alcohol. He drank some, was not intoxicated. U. S. agents seized him. A U. S. court in West Virginia convicted him of violating the Volstead Act, which specifically permits the manufacture of "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice" for home use. Last week at Richmond the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction, sent Sam Picalas and his elderberry wine back to West Virginia for retrial, with orders that a jury pass on whether or not this beverage was intoxicating in fact...
...West Virginia Coal Fields, where U. S. court orders bar organizers of the United Mine Workers of America...
William Loren Tallman, 23, 6 ft., black hair, blue eyes, for the murder last June of Mrs. Virginia Patty, broker's wife, found beaten to death with a brick in Tallman's apartment. Reward...
Dean Charles G. Maphis, Dean of the University of Virginia, summer quarter, praised the preparation the speakers had shown, revealed there had been 142 participants, an average daily attendance...