Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honorable mention was given to Frank V. DuBois, of Spokane, Washington; George F. Murnane, Jr., of Syosset, Long Island; Royal S. Schaaf of Newark New Jersey; and Robert E. L. Strider II, of Wheeling, West Virginia...
Month ago the Virginia General Assembly passed this law. The South Carolina Legislature has it under consideration. North Carolina may possibly have a special session to act on it. Arch-enemy of the Roosevelt Administration that he is, Governor Talmadge of Georgia, the fourth state which produces flue-cured tobacco (used in cigarets), will call no special session of his legislature to pass a New Deal law. Therefore the Federal legislation provides that for 1936 the compact should go into effect if the growers of Georgia form an association to carry out a similar voluntary program and the other...
...Harvardman (1932) like his father (1892) and his brother John (1936), James De W01f Perry Jr. was an undistinguished student, an undistinguished athlete rowing on class crews. Last month he was graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary. Last week Deacon Perry boned up for the examinations for the priesthood which he will take this week. Although a year must elapse between ordinations to the diaconate and the priesthood, seminaries examine at once for the priesthood on the practical assumption that candidates might forget their theology...
Scholar Lamsa, who as an Assyrian belongs to what he calls "the only pure Semitic people in the Christian fold," went to an Anglican mission college in Persia, later to Virginia Theological Seminary. Recent years in the U. S. George Lamsa has devoted to trying to prove that Christ spoke not Hebrew but Aramaic. In that tongue, used today by only a few tribesmen in the Lebanon Mountains, Lamsa believes the Gospels were originally written before they were translated successively into Semitic-sounding Greek and Latin. Two years ago Dr. Lamsa translated the four Gospels into English from early Aramaic...
...Most peaceful annual meeting of the week was that of Virginia Electric & Power Co. at Richmond, where the only stockholder to show up was an old Negro pensioner named Freeman Harris. Stockholder Harris dropped in on his way to church, prayed, while officials bowed their heads, for the Divine guidance of the company...