Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office. Naturally he noticed when a car roared up and stopped just across the street at the post office. The post office belongs to Nell Tingley. She rents it for $11.75 a month to the Government and lives in the two rooms over it. A nice woman, from Virginia, but everyone knew her husband was Roy ("Pete") Traxler, one of the convicts who escaped from a Texas prison farm on July 8, who later kidnapped Baird H. Markham Jr., Yale junior (son of a New York oil executive), held him for a day and kept...
...capital included Chicago Pneumatic Tool (70,000 shares of convertible prior preferred) and California's Food Machinery Corp. (40,000 shares of convertible preferred). Little Seaboard Finance Corp. went to market with 20,000 shares of convertible preferred to expand its small-loan and installment paper business in Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia...
Died. Henry Parker Willis, 62, economist, professor of banking at Columbia University; of heart disease; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. Technical adviser to Virginia Senator Carter Glass, Professor Willis helped draft the Federal Reserve Act, the Banking Act of 1933, the Federal Farm Loan...
...years of devoted service embroils the Cathedral in the worst mess that ever rose out of a canon's past. An unbending traditionalist, he fidgets through the first scene with misgivings about the new Dean-a rawboned, sympathetic Cambridge scholar named Mallinson, whose wife, a tall, witty, Virginia Woolf sort of character, is the author's voice for a detached account of Cathedral life. Added to these central characters are the staff of functionaries who make up the tightly-organized, beautifully-landscaped, fabulous world of a great English cathedral. Lay characters appear in sufficient numbers to afford...
...concluded that the Navy was on the skids and that "the country'll be flooded with malted milk within ten years." On shore leave at Norfolk, thanks to the new prestige of fighting men, he spent the night with a "lovely little savage" at the home of Virginia socialites. While the Baton Rouge waited off Staten Island for a convoy of 16 freighters to be assembled, a hard-drinking pulpwood editor enabled Rex to find out about life in Greenwich Village...