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...Syracuse and North Carolina, was picked to vitalize the capital's lackluster university, within three years increased enrollment by 17% (to 11,246), boosted the budget for faculty salaries by 50%, and initiated a building program that has already tripled student dormitory facilities; of a heart attack; in Bluemont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 7, 1964 | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...Justice Van Devanter was cruising the North Sea. Mr. Justice Brandeis was at his Chatham cottage on Cape Cod. Mr. Justice Cardozo was sunning himself at Rye, N. Y. Mr. Justice Butler was golfing at Bluemont, Va. Mr. Justice Roberts was on his 700-acre farm near Kimberton, Pa. Mr. Justice Sutherland was on his 24th trip to Europe. Mr. Justice Stone loafed at his favorite island near Isle au Haut, Me. And Mr. Justice McReynolds, visiting a friend at Gloucester, Mass., gave an interview to the Beverly Times about the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Light from Lansing | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

...miles from Washington "over fair dirt roads." This is news to your readers who live on the main road between these points and who travel daily over the paved State highway which covers the greater part of the distance. Between Leesburg, county seat of Loudoun County, and Bluemont at the foot of the mountain, there remain a few short stretches of "fair dirt roads" broken by stretches of paving through the villages. We venture the prophecy that by the time Mount Weather is fitted for Presidential occupancy the White House chauffeur will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Mount Weather, as the $500,000 abandoned station is called, sits in an 87-acre tract, six miles up a rocky road from Bluemont, Va. Washington, east by southeast, lies 55 miles away over fair dirt roads- an easy journey for the Presidential motor of a Friday afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Retreat | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

When the President is in Alaska and Congress is at home, where do foreign diplomats at Washington go? Bluemont in the hills back of Washington is the usual spot, but lately they have been taking to Atlantic City and the neighboring shore. The Polish and Venezuelan Ministers, and the Brazillian Ambassador have all chosen the New Jersey Coast for their aestivations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Notes: Jul. 2, 1923 | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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