Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford, his son Edsel and grandsons Henry II and Benson examined the public display before the great Convention Hall's doors were opened to let 100,000 people in. Manhattan crowds were greater. Police were obliged to regulate the queues in other "key cities," notably Kansas City, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Omaha, Boston, St. Louis, Richmond, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta. In England the railroads ran excursion trains to the London exhibition. Englishmen paid one shilling & sixpence (36c) to look at the models. They ordered 64,000 cars. In Manhattan a rascal took advantage of the local...
...Down the Potomac toward Norfolk, with an account of the Army-Navy football game droning in on her radio, steamed the yacht Mayflower, much used these days. President & Mrs. Coolidge's guests this time were Senator & Mrs. McNary of Oregon, Senator & Mrs. Oddie of Nevada, Senator & Mrs. Dale of Vermont, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Waterman Stearns (house guests) and Mr. & Mrs. E. T. Clark (he used to be the Coolidge private secretary...
...Esme is a scion of the Catholic branch of that excessively ancient family, founded by one William Howard, a Norfolk lawyer, in the 13th Century, which is now headed by Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, aged...
Atlanta, Ga. Asheville, N. C. Biloxi, Miss. Brunswick, Ga. Charleston, S. C. Chattanooga, Tenn. Cleveland, Ohio Corpus Christi, Tex. Dallas, Tex. Detroit, Mich. Erie, Pa. Greensboro, Lakeland, Fla. Los Angeles, Calif. New Orleans, La. Norfolk, Portsmouth...
Punished. At Hampton Normal Institute, large Negro training school at Norfolk, Va., President James E. Gregg last week decided to expel four students (known as the "Big Four"), suspended 56 for the rest of the academic year, and placed about 150 on probation. They were the most recalcitrant of the 400 young men & women who the week before had quit the institute when lights in the cinema hall were kept bright to discourage improper practices. (TIME...