Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cycle. Further south, in the Carolinas, the college boys are required to drink a jug of "so'th'n cawn" to prove they are gentlemen and scholars. Ther is no necessity for such measures at the University of Virginia. It is considered an insult even to intimate that a Virginian could not master such a meagre portion of the brew on which he has been raised...
...shares Virginian Corp. (a holding company for Virginian Railway Co. stock), worth...
...Ickes attacked Representative Smith for him. His slogan was: "A vote for Dodd is a vote for Roosevelt." But young Mr. Dodd was unknown, inexperienced, no political fireball. Mr. Smith, after four terms in the House, has a potent personal organization, allied with Senator Byrd's. He promised Virginians only that he would continue to vote his convictions, suh, as a good Virginian should. They renominated him by 3-to-1 over young Son Dodd...
Died. Owen Wister, 78, prolific author, grandson of the late great Victorian Actress Fanny Kemble, friend and biographer of Roosevelt I; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in North Kingstown, R. I. His most famed novel The Virginian (1902), was the product of a western rest cure, sold 1,500,000 copies, gave birth to the phrase: "When you call me that, smile...
Salesman Lyon is Philip Morris' field commander. Its generalissimo is a man as different from him as Turkish tobacco from burley-a lanky, shy Virginian, Otway Hebron Chalkley. Vice President Lyon is breezy and backslapping, President Chalkley taciturn, reserved, at ease with finance and factory but not with strangers...