Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fowler, 43, Virginia-born, a product of Yale Law School and a seasoned lawyer for New Deal and Fair Deal agencies, will head both DPA and NPA (which have been arms of ODM). "A single production head," explained Truman, "now promises to be the most effective means of overall coordination of mobilization production." Fowler believes the job is only half done; industrial expansion, arms output and stockpiling have still a tough way to go. He may not be around to see the program through its three-year buildup, but he foresees another need after the buildup is in hand. Then...
Even back in West Virginia, where the family lived before coming to Indiana, says his mother, "everybody knowed he was a climber. He'd worry the life out of me goin' up on to some knoll and then riding a sapling down into the gulch." Reflecting on this one afternoon last week, while munching on a jelly sandwich Roger felt a little dissatisfied with himself. School had been out a week and the weather was warm, but he still hadn't "worked up some of his big ideas...
...undergraduate division, James P. Moffet '51 won a first prize of $500 for his essay entitled, "The Relation of the laner and Outer Lives in the Works of Virginia Woolf." Henry Steele Commager Jr. '54 won the second prize of $300 and Thomas J. McGrath '52 won a $100 third prize...
...entire town of Virginia City, Nev. and nearby residents were invited to be the saloon guests of onetime Manhattan Society Reporter Lucius Beebe and Author Charles Clegg. The occasion: their purchase and revival of the long-defunct old sagebrush weekly, The Territorial Enterprise, in which Mark Twain got his first byline in 1863. Among the new contributing staff: Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Bernard DeVoto...
Coach Frank Richart's squad finished sixth in the field of 16 schools, trailing the University of Virginia, Princeton, Navy, Yale, and Penn State. Team standings were decided on the basis of the 36 hole medal scores of the four lowest scorers on each entering team...