Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With $600 in savings, the young couple traveled south and rented a farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. In that valley, Grandma bore ten children and raised the five that survived birth. There, too, she supplemented the family income by making butter and potato chips (a novelty in those times) for sale to the neighbors...
...Scribner's novelette contest, turned out two popular novels before The Yearling (1938) won her fame and a fortune in royalties. In 1942 she accurately recorded the manners & morals of her adopted neighbors (Cross Creek), when death came was hard at work on a biography of Virginia Novelist Ellen Glasgow...
...Trimmings. Once before, on another matter of principle, John W. Davis took another memorably unpopular position. In 1924, after a steppingstone career as a law professor at Virginia's Washington & Lee, West Virginia state legislator, member of Congress, Solicitor General of the U.S. and Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Davis was being talked about as presidential material. A supporter urged him to drop J. P. Morgan as a client so that he would be more palatable to the Bryan Democrats, to whom Wall Street was a dirty word. Davis refused: "Any lawyer who [trims...
...made yesterday is today's precedent. Four of Marshall's victories have become the constitutional cornerstones of the Negro's new civil rights: Smith v. Allwright, outlawing the Texas "white primary" and opening the way to effective Negro voting throughout the South; Morgan v. Virginia, striking down state-imposed segregation in interstate transportation; Sweatt v. Painter, compelling the University of Texas to admit a Negro to its law school; Shelley v. Kraemer, holding unenforceable, under the 14th Amendment, a racial housing covenant. Marshall's Supreme Court record: won 13, lost...
...Arizona, Connecticut, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia...