Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Returning to Baltimore on the excursion boat State of Virginia at the end of a two-day cruise on Chesapeake Bay with 235 Automobile Trade Association Conventionites, Maryland's roly-poly Governor Henry Whinna Nice was in the forward saloon with everyone else about 10 p. m. cheering a rowdy chorus-girl show, when there came four blasts of the ship's whistle. Instant later, passengers were knocked sprawling as the steel bow of the freighter Golden Harvest chopped ten feet into the State of Virginia's side a few yards aft of the merrymakers...
...French fencing master who said his name was Peter Stuart Ney. From Georgetown he fled to Brownsville three years later when some French refugees insisted he was France's late, great Marshal. In the next few years he wandered from town to town in North Carolina and Virginia teaching school. Years later one of his pupils told how he had fainted on reading a newspaper report of Napoleon's death at St. Helena. Found next day with his throat ineffectively slashed, he explained: "With the death of Napoleon, my last hope is gone...
...paunchy onetime Sedalia lawyer, who served a term in the Missouri Senate before landing his Federal job, this was a blow indeed. In private life his income was never supposed to be more than $5,000 a year. After receiving his big fee, he moved to Virginia, has since spent most...
...with $60,000; rough & ready Socialist Leo Krzycki of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, another big industrial union, which contributed $100,000 to the same strike; Lee Pressman, "purged" from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1934, who had joined the committee as counsel. President Van A. Bittner of the West Virginia miners' union was told off to direct the assault on non-union Steel in the Chicago area. The South was assigned to William Mitch, district mine president of Alabama. To Clinton S. Golden, onetime official of the National Labor Relations Board, was assigned direct charge of the East...
...labor union, the founder and chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, John Lewis was rapidly becoming a potent force in national as well as industrial affairs. Reporters in the Senate Press Gallery knew it fortnight ago when they saw the baleful glare Miner Lewis cast down on West Virginia's snaggle-toothed Rush Holt as that daring young man filibustered the substitute Guffey Coal Control Bill and possibly his own public career into the discard. Newshawks at the White House knew it when John Lewis stomped grimly into the President's office next day. And correspondents...