Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a few days other Virginia papers reprinted the Meade article, ran editorials agreeing with the News Leader. The tradition-bound Richmond Times Dispatch, long a staunch Glass supporter, regretfully announced: "We join in the call." From the Richmond News Leader and the Alexandria Gazette came dissenting opinions. Able Powell Glass, the Senator's eldest son, who runs the Glass-owned Lynchburg News and the Lynchburg Advance, dutifully gave his readers a report of the discussion, without comment...
Promised to be the first of a series of vessels named after American universities, a Victory Ship named "S.S. Harvard Victory" was launched Tuesday in a Kaiser yard at Richmond, California. The "S.S. Harvard Victory" has a dead weight of 10800 tons, larger than the Liberty Ships...
...cards," reached 80 and sounded off again. "There is no escaping the fact that the situation [Rundstedt's attack] is very serious. . . . Our intelligence service broke down completely. They appear to have been unaware of a German force of 200,000 men. . . . Imagine the population of Richmond [200,000] being assembled across the Potomac and we not knowing about it." Asked to predict the war's end, he snorted: "Well, I no longer count by anything but decades. So come back on my 90th birthday and I'll tell...
...Virginian. He lived well. He bought a Virginia estate in Culpeper County at an auction, without even warning his wife, who like his mother was a Richmond belle. She could hardly have objected when she saw the lovely Greekporticoed house on a hill, and the 650 acres that overlook the Rapidan River. There Stettinius, as a "gentleman farmer," still keeps blooded Guernseys, and sells 1,500 turkeys a year. Amid the lindens and old magnolias of "The Horse Shoe," he rides horseback and romps with his Dalmatian. Pepper (one of whose pups is owned by his friend George Catlett Marshall...
...forwards Gerry Johnson of Newburyport High and the NROTC; Brewster Wolfe of Milton Academy and Lowell House; Jack Noble of Exeter and the V-12; Ronald Wright of Pawtucket High and the V-12; guards Clyde Kelsey. Jr., of Wadena High, Minnesota and the NROTC; and Herb Fritts, of Richmond Hill, New York and the NROTC