Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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November 12, Virginia at Cambridge...
...Daughters of American Revolution in Washington, Indiana's Representative Virginia Ellis Jenckes clarioned: "If we were alert in the maintenance of true national defense we would, through proper legal action, root up every Japanese cherry tree on Federal property, saw them up for firewood, and replant them with American cherry trees." That day will mark a precedent Which brings no news of Rockwell Kent...
There are 60,205 native Welsh in the U. S.; 87,482 U. S. Welsh of pure or mixed parentage. The majority have settled in industrial regions, nearly half in the smaller towns of Pennsylvania, many more in neighboring Ohio, West Virginia and New York. Many are mill workers, weavers, miners. Most of them sing. Put four or more together and you have a chorus dedicated to the ancient music and tongue of Cambria. Put two or more choruses together, egg them into competition, and you have what is known as an eisteddfod...
First U. S. eisteddfod was in Carbondale, Pa., in 1850. Now they are held in many U. S. towns. The largest one in Warren, Ohio, every May, is seven years old, attracts Welsh from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, the rural and mining areas of Ohio and West Virginia. Smaller eisteddfods are held, usually on New Year's Day, in such Pennsylvania industrial centres as Wilkes-Barre. Plymouth. Kingston, Allentown, and in Philadelphia. New York and Los Angeles...
From Madeira School in Greenway, Virginia, according to the CRIMSON correspondent there, comes the report that Miss Madeira, teaching a Bible class, commented favorably on the fact that "a group of Harvard boys are teaching other less fortunate boys...