Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the writer was not an official representative at the meeting of the Southern Conference when it was split [into the South Eastern Conference-deep Southern schools -and the Southern Conference-Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina schools], I do not remember a so-called controversy between Virginia and Tulane as participating in such a rupture. Talk had been brewing for several years before the so-called breaking up of the Conference and it came to a head at this particular meeting held in Knoxville, Tenn...
...only other U. S. gubernatorial election of the week, Virginia's Democratic Lieut.-Governor James Hubert Price, a courtly 55-year-old Richmond lawyer, got more than five votes to every one polled for his courtly fellow townsman and old friend, former Republican State Senator J. Powell Royall...
...will cross the Mason and Dixon line for the Stadium invasion is hard to say, since they have no opponents in common with Harvard. By the few roundabout comparisons that can be made, they appear to be definitely weaker than the Crimson, but equally definitely not the set-up Virginia was last year. Davidson lost to V.M.I. 0-7, and the Army beat V.M.I. 20-7 without looking very superior at any time. A more impressive comparison starts with their 2-6 defeat at the hands of North Carolina State, a team which later defeated Boston College...
...Saved from a whitewashing by a touchdown in the last quarter Virginia Military Institute was trounced last week by Army. Score: Army 20, V.M.I...
...executive training. Son and namesake of the original Edward Reilly Stettinius, Morgan partner and U. S. director of Allied Munitions' purchases during the War, "Little Stet" craved a career of his own. Already grey-haired and sober as an undergraduate, he was well liked at the University of Virginia. Starting out at the bottom in Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors, he rose with meteoric rapidity through industrial and public relations to a vice-presidency. During the heyday of NRA he was one of Hugh Johnson's aides until called to Big Steel. Now prematurely white-haired, handsome...