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...raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair," observed Washington while presiding over the 1787 Constitutional Convention. As President, he set all sorts of standards to which Americans have ever since repaired. When Bushrod Washington, 27, wrote calmly asking appointment as U.S. district attorney for Virginia, his uncle wrote sternly: "My political conduct in nominations, even if I was uninfluenced by principle, must be exceedingly circumspect and proof against just criticism, for the eyes of Argus are upon...
...when he passed it on the river. When he made the deal to buy it, he had also seduced the widow who owned it, but if ever a man reformed for good, it was Clyde. He was not only a model husband but a shrewd businessman. Of course, stepson Bushrod turned out to be a caddish sponger, but stepdaughter Gary was the joy of Clyde's heart. Lucy was loving, but she could not give Clyde a child...
Succeeding Jerome D. Barnum of the Syracuse Post-Standard, Foxhunter Stahlman brings a dynamic, self-confident personality to the ANPA's presidency. He broke a strike which attempted to unionize the Banner's mechanical force seven years ago. Inheritor from his grandfather,* German Immigrant Edward Bushrod Stahlman, of both the Banner and his grandfather's famous quick-temper, Publisher Stahlman sometimes bursts violently out of his office into the city room waving aloft a copy of the Banner and shouting, "Who made this damned mistake?" Operating in a poorly paying newspaper town, he drives himself as hard...
...because it has only one Negro character. Most readers will consider that his Hoop Pole Ridgers make up for the loss. Author Bradford swears he has made up the names of all his characters. Mersery Pillow's mother called her that after the planet Mercury. Brigadier-General Bushrod Johnson Potter was what Mersery and Lafe called their firstborn...
Died. Edward Bushrod Stahlman. 86, oldtime German-born southern newspaper man, owner & editor since 1895 of the Nashville Banner, onetime vice president of Louisville & Nashville R. R.; after long illness; at Nashville...