Word: westmoreland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born 52, years ago in the soft-coal country which gives the background to her novel, Author Turnbull saw some of the first coal mines opened in that section. Like many another child of Scotch-Irish farmers in the beautiful rolling hills of Westmoreland County, thrilled by the romance of Carnegie and Frick, she saw the coke ovens like a pillar of fire by night, the mine tippets a new wonder...
Last week Dr. Lawson's daughter (now married to an accountant named Julius Page) and Broker Berg's daughter (now freshman at the University of Minnesota) were co-favorites to win the U. S. women's golf championship, played at the Westmoreland Country Club, outside Chicago. Each had reached the top of the golf ladder with extraordinary leaps...
...Westmoreland last week, in spite of the presence of six-time-Winner Glenna Collett Vare, onetime British Champion Diana Fishwick Critchley and six of Britain's top-ranking lady golfers who came to the U. S. for the biennial Curtis Cup matches fortnight ago, phlegmatic Estelle Lawson Page and temperamental Patty Berg reached the final for the second year in a row-some-thing that had never happened before in a national golf championship...
...dingy town of Lanarkshire, Scotland, when Phil Murray was 10, he went down into the mines to earn his living. Eight years later, migrated to the U. S. with his family, the studious youngster came out of the mines for good. Working twelve hours a day in a Westmoreland County, Pa. mine, he complained to the weighmaster one day that he was being short-weighted, got into a quarrel about it, knocked the weighmaster down, was fired. His fellows retaliated by organizing a union, electing young Murray president, threatening a strike. Up, up, up the Labor ladder he climbed until...
Violet Hilton was the one who sought the marriage license in Manhattan last week. Prospective groom was Maurice L. Lambert, 29, of Westmoreland, Md., her orchestra leader. Daisy pleaded for her sister's right to marry, for she, too, was engaged...