Word: fairfaxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Robert Walton Moore, 81, shrewd, leathery Virginia politico,' most intimate personal friend of Cordell Hull, Congressman for six terms, Assistant Secretary of State 1933-37, Counselor of the Department since 1937; of pneumonia; at his Fairfax, Va. home...
Admitting that in his tutoring notes he has infringed on the copyrights of 13 books, Marcus Horblit, proprietor of the Fairfax Hall School, agreed yesterday to refrain from printing and selling any more of the offending notes and to turn over all existing copies to the publishers for destruction...
...authors, oldfashioned, admiring, cautious, feel about Washington's recent debunkers-W. E. Woodward, Rupert Hughes-as Cal Coolidge did. "Well," said he, "I see the [Washington] monument is still there." Biographers Stephenson & Dunn will have no truck with the legend that Washington was in love with Sally Fairfax, wife of his close neighbor and friend; they discreetly evade speculation on whether his feelings for Martha were no more than dutiful. Stanch alibiers for his military blunders, they uncritically dislike Washington's critics Jefferson, Lee, Gates, Sam Adams, the Conway Cabal, et al. But their biography is the most...
...peered in vain through the crowd for the person he expected. "Here she is!" chorused the crowd. Blushing, Finnish Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar Procope rushed to greet his fiancee, Margaret Katherine Mary Shaw of York, England (TIME, March 25). They were married two days later in Fairfax...
Died. Rear Admiral Reginald Fairfax Nicholson, 87, last surviving Civil War naval officer; of a heart attack; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. He served as chief navigation officer (1898) of the battleship Oregon on its spectacular trip around Cape Horn to join the U. S. fleet off Cuba. He was one of the two naval men in history to rise from the ranks to wear an admiral's four stars. (The other: John Paul Jones...