Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgan & Co. so far as it knew had taken no position ? that "speaking generally" its power companies were believed to be abstaining from intervening in the question of public ownership -won the approval of Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer of Manhattan; Mr. Untermeyer, famed orchid-wearing epicure, son of a "Virginia planter who served in the Confederate Army" (his paragraph in Who's Who) is not a man ordinarily to be found aligned with the House of Morgan and the power companies. Now 71, he has been an active lawyer for more than 50 years, possessor of a large fortune...
...cotton planter, Mr. Blackshear became Rector of St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn last June. The congregation knew he had been trained at the Virginia Theological Seminary and had done graduate work at Oxford and Harvard. They knew he was a captain in the War, cited for bravery. They knew he was 36 years old. What they did not realize was that like any true southerner Mr. Blackshear believes Negro and white civilization can at the best be parallel, never equal. This lesson he taught them dramatically at a Sunday service...
...Loree plan is original. Other plans have been based on the observed fact that, in the East, railroads run mostly East and West. Mr. Loree shaped a system of which New England is the head, the Appalachian Mountains are the backbone and Virginia the Southern extremity. Thus as he, in his dreams, stepped down the Atlantic Coast, he trod on every big Eastern Rail road toe. But the plan, however original, was regarded last week as a protest rather than as a proposal -a protest against the D. & H. being gobbled up by the giants...
From Columbia's muliebral Barnard College last fortnight issued the annual report of famed Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve. In part, she observed that it is "practically impossible for all except a very few unusual young women to attempt working their way for four years without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time...
...scores in a field of 49 were a long parade beginning 14 strokes behind the par 320 scored by chunky, freckle-some Helen Hicks of Long Island. She had two course-record-breaking 78's to start with, which gave her subsequent 83 and 81 comfortable leeway under Virginia Van Wie of Chicago who managed to rush up from ninth to second place by finishing with two 79's. Other competitors included the Midwest's seasoned Mrs. Lee Mida and stocky Maureen Orcutt of the East. Conspicuously absent were Glenna Collett, Edith Cummings, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd...