Word: lexington
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Resigned. Major General John Archer Lejeune, 70, U. S. M. C. retired, onetime (1920-29) commander of the Marine Corps; after eight years as superintendent of Virginia Military Institute; in Lexington...
...makes a rather interesting and apt story except for one thing. I graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in the Class of 1897 and I seem to recall going from Lexington to Lynchburg in the spring of 1894 to help bury General Early; the Corps of Cadets having been designated as an Escort of Honor by the Governor of Virginia. If this is correct, General Early died something over four years before Generals Wheeler and Lee received their commissions as Major-Generals of Volunteers, U.S.A. General Early evidently had the gift of prophecy along with his many other admirable qualities...
Tracing letters sent to Ginger Rogers demanding $5,000 on threat of kidnapping or death. Department of Justice agents trapped Sailor James F. Hall of the Navy aircraft carrier Lexington who explained that he had fallen in love with Cinemactress Rogers after seeing her dance in Follow the Fleet. Campaigning for birth control, Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn, mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, two sons and two other daughters, declared in New Haven, Conn.'s First Methodist Church: "If you aren't frank about sex, your children will never confide in you again. When I explained scientifically and specifically...
Theodore F. Bullen, of Melrose, Mass.; Louis Hartz, of Omaha, Nebr.; William C. W. Haynes, of Charlotte, N. C.; George V. Kaplan, of Roxbury, Mass.; Norman J. Richards, of Lexington, Mass.; James O. Seamans, of Salem, Mass.; and Albert L. Waldron Jr., of Cleveland...
...children had no educational opportunities whatever. The Secretary of the new Board of Education began his work with little authority, less encouragement. Tirelessly he set about raising money, delivering speeches, holding Town meetings to spread the gospel of universal education. Without fanfare he established a Normal school in Lexington, first in the U. S. He set up and enforced a minimum school year of six months. In the next decade Massachusetts spent more than $2,000,000 on school buildings and equipment, established 50 new public high schools. Gradually Mann's influence spread to other states through his famed...