Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group founded by Fulton Lewis Jr., and already banned from the University of Virginia campus, states in its written constitution that it will "unceasingly strive to uncover and eradicate the concerted and well-organized attempt by subversive elements to infiltrate our colleges and campuses...
...episode was related by William Taylor Johnson of Virginia Beach, Va., a contractor who built five Powell-approved projects. In August 1950, he said, Powell came from Washington and went to the nearby Dunes Club to gamble. "He had quite a few drinks" and lost heavily, Johnson said. At dawn they returned to Johnson's home but were followed by the Dunes Club operators, who demanded $3,000 to cover Powell's losses at dice. Johnson related that he gave Powell money to pay off the gamblers...
Tour of the hustings in West Virginia and Kentucky...
...outskirts of the town of New York and proposed to donate part of the land for the site of a college campus. For years, leading men of the thriving commercial center had been agitating for a college to compete with those already established in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Virginia...
Farnsworth created confidence in his mental health program almost completely by himself. A friendly rugged six footer with a trace of a West Virginia drawl, he has a background of knowledge and experience to accompany his personality, and a familiarity with books that allows him to indulge in quoting Dostoevsky, Ortega y Gasset, or Gordon Allport. He was termed a "brilliant" student at the Harvard. Medical School, from which he graduated in 1933, and his education continued in the Navy, on a South Pacific Hospital ship, and Bethesda during World War II where he learned the mental problems of young...