Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Man Votes (John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler; TIME...
Senatorial courtesy is the custom by which Presidential appointees "personally offensive or obnoxious" to Senators from their State are not confirmed by the Senate. Last week Virginia's tart old Carter Glass and his junior colleague, Harry Flood Byrd, found obnoxious the appointment of Judge Floyd Roberts of the Corporation Court of Bristol to a Federal District judgeship. Reason: he had "lent himself to a conspiracy," of which the other partners were Governor James H. Price and Franklin Roosevelt, to flout the Glass-Byrd patronage prerogative. The Judiciary Committee thumbs-downed Judge Roberts, 15-to-3. The Senate concurred...
...Great Man Votes (John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler; TIME...
Approximately $13,300 has been raised for the support of the refugees, Lane said. Of this amount $11,000 came from the University and $2,300 from alumni in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati and Virginia, to 10,000 of whom the Committee sent written appeals...
...relaxation Elizabeth Bowen likes movies, music (swing as well as Beethoven), long walks, small, gay dinner parties. A poised and witty hostess, she knows many people, but her close friends are fellow writers: H. G. Wells, who lives nearby, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Rose Macaulay...