Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lead the group on the floor came Missouri's Bennett Clark, still remembering how his father, Speaker Champ Clark, fought and distrusted another World War President; Wisconsin's La Follette, North Dakota's Nye and Frazier,. Michigan's Vandenberg, Idaho's Clark, West Virginia's Holt, Washington's Bone, North Carolina's Reynolds, California's historic Isolationist Hiram Johnson...
...session; then on the dissident Democrats. Twice he called the Mississippi fox, Pat Harrison, by long-distance telephone. He condoled Georgia's Walter George on an eye-operation (13 months ago he strove to end George's career). He appointed James Elliott Heath (a close crony of Virginia's Carter Glass for 30 years) as Norfolk customs collector...
Francis David Langhorne Astor, 27, son of Virginia-born Lady Nancy Astor. Already serving were sons Michael, William Waldorf, John Jacob. Said Lady Astor (whose gas mask contains a compartment for lipstick and compact): "I know what the horrors of war are, for I went through the last one when my boys were children. But they...
...Virginia hill that slopes into the Potomac, twice as many Americans as usual walked, hushed and hatless, to stand in sombre silence by the white marble Unknown Soldier's Tomb. In Sudbury, Mass., leathery old Henry Ford, who once called history "bunk" and with his "peace ship"* tried to stop World War I before Christmas 1915, told reporters: "They don't dare have a war and they know it. It's all a big bluff." About Hitler: "I don't know Hitler personally, but at least Germany keeps its people at work...
Exorcised. Prince Tejansakti of Thai (formerly Siam), 5 weeks old; of evil spirits; in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, where his family and retinue are in comfortable exile. In a wordless, 1,000-year-old ceremony, Grandfather Prajadhipok (who abdicated the Siamese throne in 1935) and 20 guests made passes over little Prince Tejansakti's body with cords to trap the evil spirits, which were then burned with the cords. King Prajadhipok snipped a lock of hair from the baby's head, wrapped it in lotus leaves, set it afloat down the river. Finally, Grandfather Prajadhipok sprinkled holy water...