Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state here as emphatically as I can," wrote Virginia-born Bishop Waters, "that there is no segregation of races to be tolerated in any Catholic church in the diocese of Raleigh. The pastors are charged with the carrying out of this teaching and shall tolerate nothing to the contrary . . . Equal rights are accorded, therefore, to every race . . . and within the church building itself everyone is given the privilege to sit or kneel wherever he desires . . . I am not unmindful, as a Southerner, of the force of this virus of prejudice among some persons in the South, as well...
...windup, there was a reading of General Lee's farewell order to the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, and for the finish, a roof-raising Dixie with a 16-bar rebel yell. When it was over, there was hardly a dry eye in the house...
...variation from the yell set down by one on-the-spot expert, Harvie Dew of the 9th Virginia Cavalry, who described it: "Woh-who-ey! who-ey! who-ey! Woh-who-ey! who-ey! etc. . . . Sound the first syllable . . . short and low, and the second . . . with a very hish and prolonged note deflecting upon the third syllable...
Vocational Guidance. In Fort Worth, arrested after printing and cashing $7,000 worth of counterfeit payroll checks, ex-Convict Ralph W. Hedrick told police he had learned his trade in the West Virginia Penitentiary's printing shop...
...Thomas S. Lamont '21, and Treasurer of the College Paul C. Cabot. Coolidge has been on the Corporation for 17 years, while Kane, Marbury, and Lamont are more recent appointments. Marbury is the only member of the group who is not a Harvard graduate, having attended the University of Virginia before coming to Law School here...