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...when he ran for office, viz. Senator Carter Glass and Publisher John Stewart Bryan of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Above all he has the aid of that cohesive spirit of aristocracy-in-democracy, which, despite his flair for mixing with chambers of commerce and booming the shipping facilities of Hampton Roads, he has helped to revive in Virginia politics. This spirit was visible at the Governor's Ball, not only in the presence of all the F. F. V.'s, Woodrow Wilson's widow and President Alderman of the University of Virginia, but also in the presence of all Virginia...
While on the trip the students were treated as officers and occupied officers living quarters. Daily lectures were given on some aspects of naval science by one of the commanding officers assigned to the cruise. While at Hampton Roads the college men were given an opportunity to observe hoisting and catapulting sea planes...
...significance of Rockefeller Jr.'s choice of the Dunbar National Bank is in the long list of gifts which he has made toward the betterment of Negroes. Tuskegee, Hampton and Fiske have been given many a million; the Spelman Seminary, Negro girls' school in Atlanta, Ga., another beneficiary, gives a leading clue to Rockefeller Jr.'s largess. Rockefeller Jr.'s maternal grandmother was an eager opponent of slavery, helped form a link in the underground railway which slipped escaping slaves to freedom. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother was Laura C. Spelman; in honor of the Spelman...
Married. Maude R. Bouvier, socially famed twin (of Mrs. Henry Clarkson Scott) daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John Vernou Bouvier Jr., of New York; and John E. Davis; in East Hampton...
...regret of summer-bored Wealth and Fashion at nearby Southampton. The Evening Post (Republican) reported that the club had had to close down once before this summer-when it was ordered investigated by Governor Smith, who had heard about it during the week he spent at nearby Hampton Bays (TIME, Aug. 13). The hotel syndicate, among whose directors are Vice President George Le Bontellier of the Long Island R. R. and Motorman Walter Chrysler, demanded that the Evening Post prove that it had seen what it said...