Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mere Puppets. The rebels insisted on a showdown. They picked Minnesota's 236-lb. Roy Dunn, who calls himself "a country politician," to oppose Scott. For 4½ bitter hours, speaker after speaker rose to fling recriminations at Dewey and Scott. West Virginia's Walter Hallanan opened up for the prosecution: "An election was lost because of stupidity, arrogance and cockiness . . . We've been mere puppets...
...Paris, Marjolin often works a 14-hour day before getting home to his wife and two children in Neuilly. Mme. Marjolin is a U.S. girl from West Virginia, the former Dorothy Smith...
Married. Herbert Hoover III, 21, Menlo Junior College (Calif.) student, grandson of the 31st President of the U.S., son of Geophysicist Herbert Jr.; and Meredith McGilvray, 21, a childhood sweetheart, now a Stanford University Coed; in Virginia City...
...white man. Last year, after he got out of the service, he went to Roanoke, Va., married a redheaded, 19-year-old white girl named Florence Hammond, whom he had met while she was selling popcorn at a local movie house. Florence's family were semiliterate Virginia dirt farmers. At first they welcomed Clark. But after a while his mother-in-law began to resent him-she still wanted Florence tied to her apron strings...
...wife got him a lawyer, swore that she still wanted him-black or white. But if he were proved to be a Negro (Virginia's definition: "every person in whom there is ascertainable any Negro blood"), he would be guilty of miscegenation-a crime punishable by as much as five years in the penitentiary...