Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rules, set up the Departments of State, Treasury and War, fill the Treasury (by tariffs which remained models of log-rolling for a century), set up the Federal judiciary (its designer, Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, became fourth Chief Justice), assume the national and State ,debts (by trading to Virginia the capital site on the Potomac). All this it did, and more...
...large majority of its members were from the privileged classes-wealthy planters, landowners, merchants, bankers, lawyers. Yet they heeded the demands of Virginia, New York and Massachusetts and passed the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, guaranteeing individual liberties...
High priestess of the Set was supposed to be Virginia-born Lady Astor, nee Nancy Langhorne, the mistress of Cliveden and M. P. for Plymouth. Last week in Saturday Evening Post "Priestess" Nancy indignantly denounced all Cliveden Set stories. Lord & Lady Astor put in their first disclaimers last spring; he to the London Times, she to the Daily Herald. Now she gives full tongue. "Cliveden Set! There is no such thing! It is a fantastic invention. It has no existence. It never did exist." After that heated beginning Cliveden's mistress proceeded sarcastically to list those who really were...
...Howard Cadle has been doing exactly that. Last week, celebrating the fifth anniversary of his broadcasts over Cincinnati's big station WLW, he counted as his own 330 radio-equipped churches, each with an average 220 Sunday listeners, in the rural districts of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia...
...aggressive Mr. Cadle made a good thing of the oldtime religion, today drives a Cadillac, owns an airplane. In his People's Church, Inc. his son, Buford, 29, is business manager, his daughter, Helen Cadle Major, 26, office manager, his daughter, Virginia Ann, 16, director of young people's activities. Operating expenses of the Tabernacle and radio programs, which bring in 4,000 letters a week, come to $100,000 a year. The Church's motto is: "No creed but Christ, no law but love, no Book but the Bible." No donations are refused. The Cadle...