Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Virginia - an easy first down, but scarcely a score, for the New Deal in the renomination of all six incumbent Representatives, all New Dealers. Three were unopposed, three opposed only weakly...
...Virginia - a field goal and a first down against the New Deal in the renomination of Representative Howard Worth Smith of Alexandria and the defeat of Representative Norman R. Hamilton of Portsmouth. Mr. Smith's opponent was William E. Dodd Jr., 32, son of Franklin Roosevelt's former Ambassador to Germany, picked to run against Judge Smith by Roosevelt henchmen who consider Judge Smith too independent (he helped delay the Wages & Hours Bill). Candidate Dodd was given a campaign manager from Attorney General Cummings' staff, an endorsement by C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis (whose Alexandria home...
Then Tuerk, getting into the spirit of the thing, decided to throw in his half of the Virginia farm he owned with Fellow-Member Ferebee...
Moving along at a half-trot, Golfer Ferebee, who used to be a wrestler at the University of Virginia, played the first 36 holes in 172 strokes, 170 minutes. By noon he had collected a gallery of 500 and scores of 90, 82, 82, 82. Then Providence sent a rainstorm. Fortified by sandwiches & coffee and refreshed by a shower during his 97-minute rest, Golfer Ferebee continued his jaunt, followed by a dozen reporters, photographers and, toward late afternoon, half of La Salle Street (including Partner Tuerk...
Consequently, while his social inferiors are performing in tailor-made clothes amid de luxe surroundings, the sole cinema celebrity of the Virginia hunting set is compelled to earn his living in leggings, hide shirts and a Daniel Boone haircut...