Word: dasilva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is set in the early 1760s. Miss Goddard, an English girl, is accused -unjustly, of course-of crime, and is sentenced to 14 years' slavery in North America. The highest bid comes from Captain Cooper of the Virginia militia. A scoundrel, Howard DaSilva, tricks Cooper out of his new property. The picture thereupon settles down in and near Fort Pitt, which every schoolboy will presumably recognize as early Pittsburgh...
Fort Pitt is a stockaded outpost, threatened by Indians. Scoundrel DaSilva wants war with the Indians and a weak frontier (he is a fur trader). Patriot Cooper wants peace and a strong frontier (he is the stuff that the unborn U.S. is to be made of). DaSilva gets his war and it remains for Cooper to rescue Miss Goddard from the aborigines (Boris Karloff & friends...
Kirkpatrick scholarships to Richard R. Baxter, of New York, N. Y., candidate for A.B. Brown '42; Albert I. DaSilva, of Freeport, N. Y., candidate for A.B. New York University '42; Jerome Kinkelstein, of Jacksonville, Fla., candidate for A.B. Indiana University '42; Jacob H. Martin, of Blowing Rock, N. C., candidate for A.B. Oberlin '42; and Edgar J. Masters, of Lowellville, Ohio, candidate for A.B. Ohio University...