Word: stricklands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the time Belle lived in a small house behind the Strickland Hotel in Front Royal, Va. She picked up news from Federal officers quartered in the hotel, sent her messages by Negroes to the troops under Stonewall Jackson. Whatever the value of her information, she was idolized by Confederate soldiers, feared and detested by Yankees, disdained by Southern ladies who noted in their diaries that they were not at home when she called...
...Great Day. On May 23, 1862, Belle became famous. The Confederates under Jackson and Ewell were advancing on Front Royal. The Federals were planning to retreat to Winchester, after burning their stores. They were scattered in seven small groups. Belle was in the Strickland Hotel in the morning when she heard the first Confederate rifleshot. As she rushed upstairs she met a newspaper reporter coming down. This was a Mr. A. W. Clarke, of the New York Herald, who had been trying for some time to do what is described in books like this as "force his attentions upon...
...when the latter refused to remove three members of the faculty without a hearing. "I doubt the wisdom and propriety of you, as president of the University, urging or suggesting that a member of the Board of Regents refrain from doing anything whatsoever," wrote Regent D. F. Strickland in 1943 to Texas' president. Under the Board's rules a university president is supposed to be the professional adviser to the Board, but for several months Texas' Regents excluded President Rainey from their sessions...
Last September the Regents' interference with their president became more than Texas' students could stand. President Rainey received a message from Regent Strickland to stop making so many speeches. Although the Regents promptly denied that they had made any such official request, the Daily Texan, campus newspaper, hit right back: "Instances of smalltown 'school boardism' . . . have been too many to overlook the report of a 'shut-up' rule to the president of the institution...
...There's a Man." At the R.A.F. advance headquarters, which had previously been Luftwaffe headquarters, U.S. Army Air Forces General "Lighter-than-Air" Strickland took us over to the tiny blue-doored trailer in which Air Vice Marshal Coningham was directing all R.A.F. operations in the Western Desert. Although Rommel's retreat was orderly, neither Coningham nor General Montgomery had anticipated such a quick Axis collapse in Egypt. At the very least they expected the Germans to make a stand on the frontier. Coningham believed that the Axis would probably be able to make a stand...