Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosperous Dr. John A. Reed of Maysville, Ky., Stanley Reed had a thorough education at Kentucky Wesleyan College and Yale University, studied law at the University of Virginia, Columbia University, the Sorbonne in Paris. His education was polished off with four years in the Kentucky Legislature and a War-time first lieutenancy in the Army. At the behest not of Franklin Roosevelt but of Herbert Hoover he left his comfortable law practice in Maysville to go to Washington in 1929 as attorney for the Federal Farm Board...
What the Goodman concert amounted to was 14 foxtrots, some new, some classics like Sensation Rag and I'm Comin' Virginia, most of which the Goodman band had recorded. Also played was the celebrated set piece Sing, Sing, Sing, notable for demoniac Gfene Krupa's imperious drum beat and Teddy Wilson's rippling piano. But the event of the evening was the "jam session," effacingly noted as "no doubt the greatest contradiction a swing program could offer," but in effect a blaring success. Amiable Mr. Goodman seated himself in his reed section, his professional spectacles gleaming...
Included in the questionnaire issued by Virginia Vonne, Secretary, are such queries as, "Do you like a girl tall, short, of medium?"; "Do you prefer a good dancer, good talker, good listener, hearty eater?"; "Do you favor heavy or light make...
Dated May 17, 1768 and sent by way of Virginia's Acting Governor John Blair, Washington's letter sought from Gage a favor for some Virginian friends trading with Fort Pitt at the top of the Ohio Valley. They wanted Gage to promise not to make a boundary shift that would throw a block of Indian territory across their route between Fort Cumberland and Fort Pitt and give the market to the Pennsylvanians, who were trading over a more northern route. His request, said Washington, "can give no offense to the Indians, nor any one else, unless there...
...Finance Corp. Both lines are part of the old Van Sweringen system and ! last month they b came even more closely related when the Interstate Commerce Commission permitted C. & O. to take direct control of the Erie by acquiring the 50% of Erie stock held by C. & 0. owned Virginia Transportation Corp. and Alleghany Corp. But, as was proved last week, formal adoption by a rich uncle did not put a silver spoon into Erie's mouth...