Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VIRGINIA ALBRIGHT Cleveland, Ohio
...load of grief which Harry Hopkins put down just in time, Administrator Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington of WPA, last week went up to the Capitol armed with a 39-page statement and a heart full of spunk. The subcommittee charged with producing a Relief bill for 1940. headed by Virginia's urbane Representative Woodrum, had heard scores of witnesses. Now at last it was the turn of "Pink" Harrington, the one man most vitally affected by changes the bill they had already drafted would make in his regime...
...this point that Virginia-born M. P. Lady Astor, ever ready to put in her tuppence worth, interrupted. She owns a deer park on the Isle of Jura, she said, which is all moss and peat and "fit for nothing but deer." Not even trout could be raised on it. Spunkily Lady Astor offered to build Mr. Kirkwood a cottage on her deer park on Jura and bet him he could not make a living off it. Machinist Kirkwood is no farmer, but he accepted-much too hastily, it turned out. The discussion was continued in the lobby...
Flying to a West Virginia convention, blind and deaf Educator Helen Keller asked whether the plane was not 8,000 feet up. It was, exactly...
Married. Nina Barbara Raskob, 21, ninth of Financier John Jacob Raskob's 13 children; and Charles Wesley Lyon Jr., 23, University of Virginia Law School graduate; in Centreville, Md. Among the guests: New York's ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith...