Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alben Barkley was a tobacco farmer's son, a field worker until he was old enough to go to Marvin College at Clinton. He later put himself through Emory College (Georgia) and the University of Virginia Law School. He got his first job in the law office of Paducah's Judge W. S. Bishop whom Paducah's Irvin Cobb immortalized as "Judge Priest." Slow of mind and body, but powerful and persistent, in his career from there up to Majority Leader he had only two lucky breaks: he voted to seat Franklin Roosevelt as a delegate...
...killed the sales tax, substituted income and liquor taxes. With Governor Byrd's Virginia as his model, he reorganized the State government, abolishing 130 boards and commissions, consolidating 119 divisions into 22, including a new Department of Welfare. Aided by largesse from Washington, he balanced his budget, attacked and refunded the $28,000,000 State debt so that next year it will be all gone. He ended company police in the coal mines, cleaned up old State prisons. He got Kentucky to ratify the Child Labor amendment to the U. S. Constitution...
...Took first step under the Natural Gas Act of 1938 to lower gas rates. The Federal Power Commission gave Hope Natural Gas Co. of West Virginia 30 days to answer complaints that it was charging too much for gas in Cleveland...
...Wiggin's planting, but whatever they unearth is homey stuff. Little Peter (Donnie Dunagan) prattles through an experiment in paperhanging with a three-year-old's matchless deviltry; adolescent Gilbert (Jackie Moranj finds his voice cracking just when he needs dignity most; Lally Joy (Virginia Weidler), thrifty Storekeeper Popham's girl, wears her button shoes on the wrong feet every other day to keep the heels from running over too much to the side; beau-aged Nancy and Kitty (Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler) get in & out of sweetheart tangles without a scratch. Mothering this engaging brood...
...said his wife, "is more than half in the way he affects women. . . . He's handsome and he's got magnetism and a gift of words. And he's had lots of practice." He had started a commune on a parcel of land in Virginia which the Apostle Paul assured him was the site of the Garden of Eden. That broke up because of his predilection for young girls. During the diphtheria epidemic the Templers had not been able to harvest the crops. They had no way of getting through the winter. James Prince...