Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other sports, Lamar said, the temptation for colleges to import highly-trained amateur boxers was too great and teams such as Virginia, Syracuse, and Penn State each year included several A.A.U. champions...
Lamar himself, he admits, as two-time National A.A.U. Champion in his college career at Virginia, probably, though innocently, helped to bring about the downfall of intercollegiate boxing. However, he insists, the only opponents he was ever permitted to fight were other A.A.U. leaders. A Pan-American athlete in 1925, Lamar became Boxing Commissioner in Massachusetts in 1953 and was recently reappointed to serve for another three years in that post...
...rewards, however. At 52 she was assistant secretary-treasurer of the Norfolk Commonwealth Building and Loan Association, and according to an admiring interview in the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch more than two years ago, her $9,000 salary made her "the highest-paid woman building and loan employee in Virginia." Not that anybody doubted that Minnie earned every penny of her salary. For 20 years she had literally run Commonwealth's business, auditing accounts for four branches as well as the home office. She also did all the hiring and firing, and she preferred girls without bookkeeping experience because they...
...check of Minnie's tangled accounts, federal auditors revealed that Commonwealth's entire reserve fund of almost $2,200,000 seemed to be missing. It was beginning to look as though Miss Minnie had been not only the highest-paid woman building and loan employee in Virginia but also the most spectacular embezzler in U.S. history...
...Lamont as well as supervising the circulation and stacks of Widener is one that calls for skill and diplomacy. McNiff's skill in library science is a matter of record; his diplomacy evident to anyone who has stormed into his office to complain that Lamont doesn't subscribe to Virginia Gypsy Annual...