Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaping West Virginia...
...West Virginia doesn't fare so well in your paper, I guess. Not one of the largest States but one of the most beautiful; one of great historical background and one of many large industries. At Charleston we have as fine a Capitol Building as there is in the country. It is surpassed by none. We have as good a State Administration and as great an Executive as any of the larger States. In our Governor we have gone forward by leaps & bounds and have led most of the States with our school system, fair and just tax program...
Democrats: Virginia C. Gildersleeve, Mary Woolley, Will Durant, Robert Taylor, George Raft, George Jessel, George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, Lee Shubert, Eddy Duchin, W. C. Fields, Beatrice Lillie, Joe E. Brown...
...Other major football scores last week: Alabama 7, Mississippi State 0; Army 27, Columbia 16; California 7, Oregon State 0; Fordham 7, Southern Methodist 0; Michigan State 7, Carnegie Tech 0; Navy 35, Virginia 14; Oregon 7, Stanford 7; Pitt 6, Ohio State 0; Purdue 35, Wisconsin 14; Southern California 24, Illinois 6; Yale 7, Penn 0; Holy Cross 7, Dartmouth...
Masonite was not named for the benefit of the building trade but for the inventor of the basic processes-William Horatio Mason. A broad-shouldered, white-haired Virginia-born engineer who spent 17 of his 59 years working for the late Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Mason went to Laurel, Miss, after the War to work out a method of removing and recovering rosin and turpentine from Southern pine lumber. He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post...