Word: virginia
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...family's money came from coal. His rich Grandfather Warren Delano had anthracite holdings in eastern Pennsylvania, where there is still a ghost town named Delano. As a young husband in 1908 he rode horseback with his uncle, another Warren Delano, over the Cumberland ridges of Virginia to inspect bituminous properties in Kentucky's Harlan County, later to be called "bloody" for its bitter strikes and brutal strikebreaking. His point: Franklin Roosevelt knows about coal mine management from personal experience...
George Marshall also began as a private (in 1902). But he had graduated from Virginia Military Institute, which in the Army is next best to West Point (or birth into an Army family). His great-great-grand-uncle was interested in coal and coke mines near Uniontown, Pa., where George Marshall was born on the last day of 1880; his great-great-grand uncle was John Marshall, greatest U. S. Chief Justice. Soldier Marshall was a mere first lieutenant in 1916. During the World War he got a temporary colonelcy, a chance to demonstrate his brilliance at staff direction, finally...
Died. Mrs. Maryon Andrews Cooper Hewitt McCarter, 55, much-married (five times) Virginia belle who reportedly turned down an invitation from the Shah of Persia to head his harem; of cerebral apoplexy; in Manhattan. In 1936 her daughter, Heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt, charged Mrs. McCarter with mayhem: laving her sterilized to retain control of a $10,000,000 trust fund. Daughter Hewitt, who failed to press the charges, later married a mechanic, then a onetime bartender (TIME, March 27). Mrs. McCarter, driven into bankruptcy by extravagance and litigation, had been living on a trustee's allowance...
...authentic 1860 rolling stock for Union Pacific, he bought his equipment from Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway, which hauled $700,000,000 in gold and silver from Comstock Lode, got an ICC railroad operator's license to transport V&T's 37 vintage cars to location (at 15 m.p.h.). > He persuaded 700 reluctant Piutes, Sioux, Cheyennes and Navahos, some of whom had steady jobs on WPA to work in breechclouts, despite low temperatures Chuckled Mr. DeMille when the thermometer once approached zero: "First time I ever saw a red man turn blue." > Disliking the looks of contemporary...
Williamsburg, capital of colonial Virginia, was one of the gayest musical spots in unmusical 18th-Century America. Musical centre of this musical spot was the colonial governor's palace. In its spacious salons, between sessions of the Virginia Legislature, such distinguished amateurs as Thomas Jefferson gathered to make sweet music on viols, flutes, harpsichords. Now Williamsburg, restored by the Rockefellers, looks much as it did 200 years ago. But for Colonial Williamsburg Inc., looks were not enough. It wanted to restore the sweet sounds...