Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Burgess, first year Law student missing since November 13 was seen yesterday afternoon in Bluefield, West Virginia, according to Harold W. Ball, reporter on the Sunset News...
...Assistant General Counsel of AAA, for his friend Bill Douglas as trial examiner for the SEC, for his friend Robert H. Jackson as a special consultant in the Department of Justice's trust-busting campaign. An able trial lawyer, he was at one time Dean of West Virginia University's Law School and left there in 1930 with offers of professorships in both the Harvard and Yale Law Schools. He chose Yale, helped Dean Charles E. Clark and Walton Hamilton make it as New Dealish as Felix Frankfurter's Harvard...
Birthday presents received by 42-year-old Bertie included: a smoking cabinet with pipes and Virginia cigarets from his daughters; four magnificent Arabian steeds from King Ibn Saud of Saudi-Arabia; a telegram from Adolf Hitler...
...likely successor to Director Fred Dow Fagg Jr., of the potent Bureau of Air Commerce-slated to retire next June -West Virginia's Congressman Jennings Randolph last week laid before President Roosevelt the name of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Since Colonel Lindbergh is obviously not hounding Congressman Randolph for political patronage, the suggestion seemed to have been prompted by nothing more than a Congressman's normal appetite for publicity-except for two things: 1) Mr. Randolph's letters dwelt at length on the idea that the U. S. "must continue its world leadership" in transoceanic aviation...
...from heartbroken heyday in the 19th Century. Among 60 pictures, most of them hunting and racing scenes, were examples by such eminent specialists as Henry Alken, Benjamin Marshall and the stagecoach driver, John Frederick Herring, favorite of George IV and Queen Victoria. Fox-hunting gentry from nearby Virginia and Maryland also found pleasure in a handful of pictures by modern sporting artists...