Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slightly annoyed by veiled criticism, President Hoover last week announced his intention of donating his camp in Virginia to the U. S. as a permanent presidential retreat. He detailed the contributions to its construction: 1) from Virginia, roads to the camp; 2) from the Marine Corps, "Labor in erecting cabins and tents, in providing water supply, cutting brush;" 3 ) from the telephone and electric light companies, "connections without charge;" 4) from local residents, "labor on fine trails;" 5) from the U. S. Army engineers, road work "as one of its summer exercises:" ]6) from himself, 164 acres of land...
...house on them were the property of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The government wanted the site for the new home of the Supreme Court of the U. S. A federal board condemned it and Bishop Cannon was obliged to sell. His Virginia admirers in 1925 had given him this $12,500 abode believing he had pauperized himself in the cause of Prohibition. In Washington he lived at the Driscoll Hotel, on the opposite side of Capitol Hill, rented out his gift home. Though he said he would not take $20,000 for the property...
...Manhattan, caught the S. S. Olympic to Europe "to get as far away from politics as possible." Abroad he will attend: Universal Religious Peace Conference at Frankfurt-am-Main; Faith & Order Conference at Maloja; Life Work Conference at Eisenack. He will return in time to work in the Virginia election campaign in October...
Last week regular Virginia Democrats-i.e., those who supported their presidential ticket and lost the State to the G. O. P.-held their primary, chose as their candidate Prof. John Garland Pollard of William & Mary. Polling five-sevenths of the 140,000 votes cast, he far outran two rivals, who, for a united Democracy, immediately pledged him their support. The primary campaign had been mild and lulling. No bad feeling was permitted to creep in. Democratic ranks were closed simultaneously with the polls...
...plunged down the ways at Newport News. Va., and was christened Pennsylvania. Last week fitters were busy installing finishings, running gear and, of special significance in a modern freight carrier, refrigerating and air-cooling machinery. Owned by the Panama Pacific line, turbo-electric driven, the Pennsylvania has twin sisters, Virginia and California. The Virginia began last winter to carry 33,000-ton loads of freight between Atlantic and Pacific ports. The California made her maiden voyage the winter before. The Pennsylvania will be ready for service in October or November...