Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, Virginia's Clifton Woodrum was chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee which handled the last several WPA bills. He was one of those who cut $150,000,000 from the deficiency bill...
Born. To Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, 42, crack Eastern Air Lines pilot who made the first round-trip hop between the U. S. and Europe; and Martha Virginia ("Toby") Wing, 22-year-old cinemactress: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Fortnight ago newshawks found out they had been married since last June...
...last week citizens of Coatesville, Pa. (pop. 14,582) saw a demonstration of a new brand of service which requires neither stops nor flying fields, were told that beginning May 12 it would be given daily to Coatesville and 54 other towns in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and Ohio by All-American Aviation, Inc., under Government contracts...
...meets,† but last year Chaplain Phillips prayed only four times in the Senate. Reason: by Senate rule he prayed only on legislative days; and (because the Senate often recesses without adjourning) one legislative day sometimes went on for weeks. Last week, overjoyed by a resolution introduced by West Virginia's hard-bitten old politico, Senator Neely, and passed unanimously, Chaplain Phillips was, according to its terms, praying every working...
...years, ago, in Milan, Italy, a new weekly magazine called Omnibus appeared. Skillfully edited by Leo Longanesi, 33-year-old Fascist journalist, it printed political articles, photographs of pretty women and, as its specialty, the fiction of such little-known foreigners as Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell. Italy's best magazine, Omnibus quickly became its most popular as well, with readers clamoring for more & more contemporary U.S. authors...