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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Oscar Levant, 32, composer, pianist, glib-libbing expert on Canada Dry's Information Please program; and June Gilmartin, 24, cinemactress (June Gale); he for the second time, she for the first; in Fredericksburg, Va...
Publisher John Macrae Sr., longtime president of E. P. Button & Co. (books), shot himself in the upper left arm and chest while hunting 'possum near Greenwich, Va., was hurried to Fauquier County* hospital for a blood transfusion...
Convicted of simple assault & battery were three Warrenton, Va. aristocrats who last June oiled & feathered Washington Society Chit-Chatter Count Igor Cassini, because they did not like his printed references to their families and friends (TIME, July 3). Ian Montgomery, 38, took all the blame, thereby pulled the teeth of the indictment for mob assault, which might have jailed the trio for ten years each. To a court jampacked with Fauquier (pronounced faw´-kee-a) County hunt society, a Fauquier County jury declared the act a misdemeanor, ruled that their fun would cost the defendants $500 (Ian Montgomery...
...Contractors Rinehart and Dennis of Charlottesville, Va. drilled a tunnel in double-quick time through a hill near Gauley Bridge. Hired for the blasting were 2,000 men, mostly Negroes. Within three years after the tunnel was finished, 466 had died of silicosis and tuberculosis...
...growing economic change and bewilderment: "of [Northern] abolitionists hanged, shot, stabbed, mutilated, disfigured facially by vitriol, their home doorways painted with human offal ... of the 260,000 free Negroes of the South owning property valued at $25,000,000, one of them being the wealthiest landowner in Jefferson County, Va. ... of Southern planters and merchants being $200,000,000 in debt to the North and chiefly to the money controllers of New York City...