Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hampton Normal Institute, large Negro school at Norfolk, Va., faculty & student body took issue. Four hundred students went on strike, refused to atend classes or sing at church service. The faculty countered by suspending classes. Thereupon, 900 of the 1,200 students entrained for home. The striking students may return to Hampton provided they apply in writing, pledging loyalty & obedience. Otherwise they are automatically ousted. The controversy resulted from the students protesting by strike against the illumination of Assembly Hall during cinema performances. The illumination was insisted upon by the faculty because, darkened, the room had been used...
Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke and Earl and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Maltravers, Baron FitzAlan, Baron Clun, Baron Oswaldestre, 19-year-old scion of one of England's oldest families, Roman Catholic, last week "flunked" responsions-college entrance examination at Oxford. The young Duke has never been to school, but has been "educated" privately by a tutor. It may have been argued that his aristocratic lineage entitled him to many privileges, but Oxford has long been noted for its democratic independence. Magdalen College refused...
...Carey V. Freeman, D. D. S., of Jacksonville, Fla., was elected president of the association. Its headquarters are at Durham, S. C.; strong, affiliated organizations are in Cleveland, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Washington, Norfolk, Detroit...
Father John Roach had learned to breast publicity long ago in the lesser ponds of his early pastorates-in Chicago, Baltimore and Norfolk. He had no coach other than his own intuition and his experience. The sons of the pastor, however, have had his stout hands under their chests as they began paddling into public attention. Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, eldest of the sons and now pastor of the New Berean Baptist Church in Philadelphia, had his father's help in getting ordained in spite of Baptist opposition (TIME, Aug. 2). Last week, "followed up" by Manhattan newspapers, Warren Badenock...
...cities and towns have City Manager governments of one type or another. Cleveland, with a population approaching a million is the largest City Manager municipality (City Manager, William R. Hopkins). Other outstanding examples of the City Manager system are: Sacramento, Miami, Kansas City (Mo.), Dayton, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Norfolk, Fort Worth (Tex.), and in Canada, Montreal. Rapid City, S. Dak., summer home of the U. S. Government, also is a City Manager city...