Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles W. Huntley, Schenectady, New York, assistant in Psychology; Donald V. McGranahan '35, Malden, assistant in Psychology; Fillmore H. Sanford, Luray, Virginia, assistant in Psychology; Wondell H. Bash, Dos Moines, Iowa, Drake '35, assistant and tutor in Sociology...
Feature of the evening was a Virginia Reel danced by a party in costume including Newshawks Raymond Clapper, J. Fred Essary, Ulric Bell, Ernest Lindley, Secretary Morgenthau, James Roosevelt and their wives, not to mention Gracie Hall Roosevelt and his sister, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. The President from his armchair called the changes: "Do-see-do! Down the middle and back again! . . . Swing your partner around to the right." Fledgling newshawks clapped in time to Turkey in the Straw, Dixie and Yankee Doodle. Soon a half-dozen reels, more energetic than polished, were in progress in different parts...
...irate Joe Starnes of Guntersville, Ala. exclaimed last week upon the floor: "Two weeks ago he had the power to override one of the ablest members of the House of Representatives and his subcommittee-I refer to the gentleman from Virginia [Clifton Alexander Woodrum]. A week ago, according to the press, he came on the Hill and held a meeting in the office of the majority whip of the House, and yesterday he entered into the sanctum sanctorum, the office of the majority leader of this House, or the holy of holies. That is what the members of the House...
...five years 1926 through 1930 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway owned through its subsidiary, Virginia Transportation Corp., about 1,000,000 shares of stock worth $50,000,000, carrying, together with stock of affiliates, working control of the Erie and Nickel Plate railroads. These holdings were not reported to the Interstate Commerce Commission. C. & O.'s Comptroller E. M. Thomas declared that this was "solely through a clerical error." When Senator Truman marveled at this explanation, Comptroller Thomas continued hotly...
...Civil War. The Grand Army of the Republic, under its commander-in-chief, General John A. Logan, followed up the idea, and chose May 30, 1868 as the day for respecting Union graves. The holiday was quickly made annual by all save seven of the southern states, while Virginia recognized the occasion each year, but called it "Confederate Memorial Day". Thus Memorial Day is virtually a national event, and after almost seventy years of steady observance, has assumed a position of real traditional rank...