Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia O'Hanlon...
...often reprinted this editorial, and other papers have been pleased to copy. While Virginia O'Hanlon grew to middle age in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, at Columbia University's School of Journalism the Santa Claus editorial was held up to students as the perfect example of its type. Finally, as sooner or later happens to all such classics, the Sun's credo was set to music. The composer, NBC Conductor Rosario Bourdon, made a cantata out of it, with chords of booming brass, a soprano soloist and a male chorus, broadcast it (1932) with Soprano Jessica...
...that end, all stops are out on the appeasement pipe-organ, and Chief Organist Stephen T. Early has orders to stomp on the bass. Time was when Virginia's old fireball, Carter Glass, would as soon enter the White House as a poolroom; likewise, Utah's William H. (I'm Against It) King, and many another. Now these conservatives are smiled on, their counsel taken, their birthdays and patronage remembered...
MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL-Virginia Lee Burton - Houghton Mifflin...
...Town. The afternoon Item was started as a cooperative venture in 1877, fell into the hands of West Virginia-born James Mcllhany Thomson 30 years later, while its editor was serving time in jail for libel. Publisher Thomson hired scholarly Marshall Ballard (who had been a fellow student at Johns Hopkins) to edit the Item...