Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Showman Farley had arranged for every state to second Roosevelt's renomination. That meant 48 speeches plus nine more from non-voting areas. It meant more than eight hours of fervid oratory in praise of Franklin Roosevelt. Toward midnight Chairman Robinson requested speakers to be brief but West Virginia's Senator Neely insisted on delivering a full-length speech, to which no one listened. Governor General Frank Murphy of the Philippines did his duty in ten words: "The Philippine Islands gratefully second the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt." At 12:42 a.m., two minutes after the roll call...
...oral explanations their leaders gave. So weary were they, however, that they laughed, applauded, made speeches showing that they really did not know what they were voting on, then passed it, 221-to-98. More deliberate was the Senate : 3½ hours were devoted to debate. Senator Byrd of Virginia and other opponents who had studied it, explained with fatigue how bad they thought it was. Then the Senate passed it, 42-to-29. Thus 48 hours after it appeared in the world the Revenue Act of 1936 became...
...First Deficiency (Relief) Bill. Tired, ailing Senator Fletcher made a long, earnest plea for the Canal, and his colleagues, largely out of affection for the man who was senior in service to all of them except Idaho's Borah and senior in age to all except Virginia's Glass, voted a conditional $10,000,000 for the Florida ditch, though rejecting the Maine...
...John J. Appel of Teaneck, N. J. found in his bungalow a 15-lb. snapping turtle with "Alf Landon" painted on its back. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lynchburg, Va.'s city charter, the U. S. Treasury consented to issue coins bearing the likeness of Virginia Senator Carter Glass, who will thus become the second person in U. S. history so honored during life, the first so honored alone. In 1926 Calvin Coolidge shared a half dollar with George Washington to mark the sesquicentennial of the Declaration of Independence Picking a summer house at Saranac Lake...
Died. Dr. James Tate Mason, 54, Seattle surgeon, installed last month as president of the American Medical Association (TIME, May 25); of thrombosis; in Seattle's Virginia Mason Hospital which he founded 18 years...