Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Byrd added up some new figures from the Administration last week and hustled out a press release. In March, Byrd reported, the Federal Government lopped 20,135 civilian employees off its payroll, the biggest cut in any month since the Korean war began. Most (17,859) of those dropped were in the Department of Defense, which at the end of March still had more civilian employees (1,303,534) than all other Government departments combined. Total federal civilian employment after the 20,135 had departed...
...County jail, Chief Heck sent for Mrs. Raboski. "What's the matter?" she asked, when she arrived at the station. "The easiest way to tell you, I guess," said her husband, "is to read these to you." After he had owned up to Cornelius Pytsch's record. Virginia Raboski's first question was: "Am I married to you?" Her husband gently assured her that a person using an alias could marry as legally as anyone else...
...George Dangerfield, for his The Era of Good Feelings, a history of the presidential administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams, from 1817 to 1829. C| David J. Mays, lawyer and historian, for his two-volume biography, Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, a Virginia judge, statesman and political leader...
...well as literary subjects in the department of English. His critical interests range from Pindar to modern writers, with special interest in Dryden, the early eighteenth century poets, and Jane Austen. He is the author of "Fields of Light," a study of various literary landmarks from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf...
...member of the College of Arms: on her mother's side, the Queen is a second cousin, seven times removed, to George Washington; and a fifth cousin, five times removed, to General Robert E. Lee. The common ancestor was a Colonel Augustine Warner, who came to Virginia...