Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ralph Guldahl made the great comeback of the year. But Sam Snead made the great come-up. A million or more U. S. sport addicts now agree with the Virginia hillbillies, and some experts, notably Gene Sarazen, go so far as to say he is the greatest golfer ever developed in the U. S. Making his bigtime debut in the winter circuit last year, 24-year-old Samuel Jackson Snead captured the favor of golf galleries by his tremendous power and precise timing, his natural swing, his titanic stretch finishes. He began to draw galleries reminiscent of the Hagen, Jones...
Birthday. Carter Glass, senior Democratic Senator from Virginia; his 80th; in Washington, day after Congress reconvened. Said he of the President's speech (see p 11): "It was a very agreeable and engaging sort of a message, from his viewpoint...
...Bowl. El Paso-West Virginia 7, Texas Tech...
...pulpit addressed his congregation in Woodstock, Va. one January Sunday in 1776, John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg flung wide his Lutheran minister's gown, revealed himself in the uniform of a colonel of the Continental Army. The congregation cheered. That day Pastor Muhlenberg gained 300 recruits to his 8th Virginia regiment, called "the German regiment" and a model of efficiency. Colonel Muhlenberg, son of a German who in 1748 organized the first American Lutheran federation, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, had gone to Woodstock in 1772 after journeying to England to be ordained an Anglican minister, since the Colony's laws...
...body (1,523,022 members), which was formed by merging three of the many scattered groups which make up U. S. Lutheranism. Listening in on NBC's Red network, Lutherans heard Muhlenberg's recruiting sermon dramatized, heard his connection with "The Cradle of the Nation" glorified by Virginia's Governor George Campbell Peery and Senator Harry Flood Byrd...