Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collecting 218 names for her first petition took Mary Norton 17 days. Record for similar petitions was 100 names in a day. Last week, Mrs. Norton was so conscious of the difficulty of her task that she sent a wire to Indiana's Congresswoman Virginia E. Jenckes, asking her to make a special trip from home to sign her name. Mrs. Jenckes flew East but she arrived at the Capitol in time only to witness the celebration of an astounding victory...
...Tirana, their odorous turbulent capital. They came to celebrate the wedding of their 42-year-old King, Zog I, to a half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Mother and father of the Countess, who prefers her Budapest nickname of "Jerry," are the onetime Gladys Virginia Stewart of Manhattan and the late Count Anton Apponyi of Budapest...
...miles an hour-and the more frightened I get, the faster I go." At Sneden's Landing-20 miles from Times Square across the Hudson-Welles has for neighbors Katharine Cornell, Columnist Dorothy Thompson ("whom I do not admire"). Welles met his wife, dainty, blonde Virginia Nicolson Welles, while both were acting in a summer drama festival in 1934, married her that fall. Last month their first child was born. A girl, she was christened Christopher...
...union contemplated a new body (The Methodist Church) composed of five regional Methodist conferences, and a sixth conference embracing 360,000 Negro Methodists regardless of geography. If this smelled of Jim Crow to some Northern liberals, it smelled of too much brotherly love to some Southern diehards. Led by Virginia's Bishop Collins Denny (retired), these antiunionists pounded the racial angle for all it was worth. Stumping the South, 84-year-old Bishop Denny cried: "What are you going to do if eight or ten Negroes come and say, 'Here are our certificates, and we want to join...
...built for the Panama Pacific Line in 1928, she was the largest (17,833 tons) commercial ship ever constructed on U. S. ways, the largest in the world with electric propulsion. Last week, when the California tied up at Pier 61, Manhattan, near her idle sisters, Pennsylvania and Virginia, it was the first time the three vessels had ever been in port together, the last time any one of them would slip a hawser for Panama Pacific...