Word: virginia
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...referred to is Captain Michael Cresap. No one has an ancestor in whom he takes more pride than I take in Captain Michael. He was an Indian fighter of rare courage. He took part in Dunmore's War in 1774 and drove the Indians from the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania back into Ohio. At the treaty of peace, Cresap was accused of having murdered the family of a friendly Indian named Logan. He paid no attention to the charges and soon was summoned to raise a company of riflemen for the Revolutionary War. His company marched from...
Twenty-five years after Cresap's death, Thomas Jefferson published his Notes on Virginia. In them he criticized the white settlers for their inhuman treatment of Indians and he used as an illustration the alleged murder of a friendly Indian family by Captain Michael Cresap. That charge has been answered time and again. First by John Jacobs in 1820, second by Brantz Mayer, a Baltimore lawyer, in 1851, and finally by Professor James A. James, of Northwestern University, in his life of George Rogers Clark. Dr. James discovered that George Rogers Clark and Captain Cresap were together...
...credit to TIME's able book reviewer for writing the best statement on Virginia Woolf that this writer has ever seen (TIME, April 12). What many lecturers on the novel have endeavored to put across in a month's time, is set forth in TIME so concisely and yet so fully that the Woolf enthusiast is given at once the whole essence of Woolfism. And to crown the whole evaluation TIME takes the crux of Woolfism for its cover caption: "It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple Virginia Woolf has turned her back...
...horrified to see that the photograph of Virginia Woolf on the cover of TIME, April 12, credited the photographer, Man Ray, but did not credit Harper's Bazaar, who arranged to have Mrs. Woolf's picture taken and paid Man Ray a large sum for the exclusive rights to this beautiful picture...
...nephew of Editor Norman Hapgood, former Minister to Denmark; husband of Mary Donovan who was Socialist candidate in 1928 for Governor of Massachusetts; himself Socialist candidate in 1932 for Governor of Indiana-was not so many years ago, as an irregular union organizer in the coal mines of West Virginia, very much at odds with John L. Lewis. Now secretary for the C.I.O. in New England, he appeared at Lewiston fresh from a conference with Leader Lewis. When strikers emerged from a union meeting and tried again to cross the Androscoggin, police used tear gas and clubs to turn them...