Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander Hamilton's campaign to have the U. S. assume the full cost of the Revolution. In return, in 1790, Hamilton helped Jefferson pass legislation locating the new capital in the South on the Potomac River. President Washington picked the site?100 sq. mi. ceded by Maryland and Virginia to the U. S. at the head of tide water. He called the new Capital "The Federal City." Jefferson, Madison and the three commissioners chosen to lay out the city, referred to it from the start as "Washington...
...Married. Virginia Waddill Shepherd of Richmond, Va., step-daughter of Novelist James Branch Cabell (Jurgen); and Edward King Davis, Manhattan lawyer; in Richmond...
...destructive like the blaze of its sun. It had an integrity but it was not the measured dignity of mind. Its integrity lay in the virtues of extreme loyalty and unassailable courage. It was magnificent in battle, in battle rather than in war. It was, after all, General Lee, Virginia, who led the South; but he had Alabama tigers to lead; men born for fighting, capable of fighting throughout all their long or short lives. They made the four years of the Confederacy possible. Then they too vanished." The scene set, Hergesheimer silhouettes against it nine representative actors: ". . . the eloquent...
...President Hoover went Virginia fishing license No. 172,523. To his fishing friend, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, went license No. 172,-524. ¶ For Senor Pablo Ramirez, Chilean Minister of Finance, President Hoover gave a White House luncheon. Senor Ramirez is touring the U. S. in the interest of Chilean nitrate...
Outstanding in the Midwest is Tudor Hall, Indianapolis, established by the late Miss Fredonia Allen "who brought Eastern culture to-the Midwest." Connecticut neighbors are Farmington, fashionable and not strict, and the Ethel Walker School where girls are seldom allowed to walk outside the gates. Virginia's Foxcroft stresses manners and sports, as does the more intellectual Rosemary in Greenwich, Conn. Westover in Middlebury, Conn., insists upon its selectivity. The Masters School at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., is proud of its social standing and religious training. Castilleja School in California is the most famed of Western girls' schools...