Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many another State, Virginia requires its public schools to teach the harmful effects of alcohol. But two years ago the State General Assembly went further, commissioned University of Virginia's Dr. James Alexander Waddell and Medical College of Virginia's Dr. Harvey Bernhardt Haag to prepare a scientific treatise on alcohol's effects. Two months ago Drs. Waddell & Haag submitted their report to the State Board of Education, which warmly endorsed the work, sent it to the General Assembly for approval as a textbook. In no time at all the Woman's Christian Temperance Union...
...does not refer to alcohol as a poison." Senator Charles T. Moses snapped: "Certain scientific facts may be misleading and damaging to young minds." Senator Vivian Page shrilled: "We should teach the children that their first drink will be their worst." Thereupon the Senators unanimously banned the book from Virginia's schools. Last week, in a final effort to exorcise rum from Virginia, they ordered that copies of the book, printed as a Senate document, be destroyed. To the authors they hastily returned all copyright privileges, leaving Drs. Waddell & Haag free to offer the books to schools in other...
Engaged. Maria Virginia Zimbalist, 22, daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist and of onetime operatic Soprano Alma Gluck, half-sister of Author-Critic Marcia Gluck Davenport; to Ogden Goelet, 30, once-divorced Newport & Manhattan socialite...
...several years U. S. card experts have experimented with five-suit games. One such, devised last summer by A. A. Jordan of Virginia Beach, Va., has a crown-emblem fifth suit...
Married Again. Stan Laurel, 42, professionally addle-pated cinemactor, to Vera Ivanova Shuvalova, 28, Russian singer; for the second time in eight weeks, just to make sure and because his former wife, Virginia Ruth Laurel, had insisted he was still her husband; in Yuma, Ariz., as before...