Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ambrose: "Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Henry Knox I had to look up Edmund Randolph and Samuel Osgood ((all correct...
Federal investigators said a weekend fire that totaled Alabama's racially troubled Randolph County High School was arson. The FBI and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms say "an accelerant" caused the blaze. Meanwhile, the man at the center of the racial fire storm, ex-principal Hulond Humphries, got slapped with a lawsuit from a local TV cameraman. Bill Gill's tape shows Humphries and another man slamming Gill to the ground. The reporter, who is black, says the incident was racially motivated and points to racist statements made during the alleged assault...
...redhead who attracted suitors with remarkable ease, the British-born aristocrat had married and divorced Winston Churchill's son Randolph by the time she was 25. The young Mrs. Churchill spent the rest of her 20s and 30s spinning around the London-Paris-Antibes social orbit, bedding other wealthy and powerful men. They included journalist Edward R. Murrow and Italian mogul Gianni Agnelli, whom Ogden describes -- Jackie Collins-style -- as looking "so luscious" to Harriman when they first met that "her knees trembled." Ultimately, Agnelli, a lothario, refused to marry her, which hurt Harriman deeply...
...gray suit, white shirt and red tie, he more than ever fits Russell Baker's description of him as "the wise Episcopal bishop." Raised in a distinguished Old South family fallen on hard times, Kempton might be describing himself when he writes of the civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph: "His only vanity is his manners...
...vote, Alabama's Randolph County school board reinstated Hulond Humphries, the white high school principal accused of trying to cancel a prom to avoid interracial dating. The only white school-board member to join the lone black member in voting against Humphries resigned in protest...