Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...venerable State Capitol at Richmond, where Robert E. Lee accepted his commission as commander of the rebel Virginia troops, the governors of four Southern states last week proclaimed a pattern of opposition to the Supreme Court of the U.S. Governors Thomas Stanley of Virginia, James Plemon Coleman of Mississippi, Marvin Griffin of Georgia and George Bell Timmerman Jr. of South Carolina jointly declared that the Federal Government had no power to prohibit the segregation of races in the public schools. (North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges attended as an "observer," did not sign the declaration because his state legislature...
...mother was a Virginia Stuart, descended from an impressive roster of jurists and socialites-but not, as reported, directly from Confederate General James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart. Jeb apparently was a distant kinsman, a member of what Outerbridge's forebears joked was "the cadet branch of the family...
...Fourth of July, 1916), the Federals immediately moved to deport her. This raised a fine legal point: Is Rose now an undesirable resident alien, perhaps to be deported as a U.S.-born woman without a country? If she beats a booting, a job awaits her at Ronceverte, West Virginia's radio station WRON, as a late-hour disk jockey...
...Chicago speaker after speaker at the 8th annual credit conference of the august American Bankers Association called for caution on credit, but did not think the present level too high. Said Bank of Virginia's President Thomas C. Boushall: "Outstanding consumer credit (totaling $34.6 billion) is not actually excessive. Private debt (which includes consumer credit) in 1930 was 176% of a year's production; in 1955 private debt is 81% of a year's production...
...begin with the most antient State. And as we cannot have too many of so good a Race, I hope you and Madame de la Fayette will go thro' the Thirteen . . . While you are proceeding, I hope our States will some of them new-name themselves. Miss Virginia, Miss Carolina, and Miss Georgiana will sound prettily enough; but Massachusetts and Connecticut, are too harsh even for the Boys, unless they were to be Savages...