Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Fletcher, 47, director of student affairs, fell the job of investigation; he swiftly recommended disciplinary action. Virginia's able President Colgate Darden, onetime state governor, heard the evidence, expelled four undergraduates, suspended seven more for one' year and withheld the diploma of a recent graduate. A special investigating committee of the university's board of visitors backed him up. So did the full board in principle, although it shortened some of the suspensions...
Tombstone and Last Chance Gulch were sinful frontier towns, but Virginia City had nothing to be ashamed of-she could hold up her head with the worst. She had been christened with a bottle of whisky, and her intemperate citizens used to ventilate each other with six-shooters until the drafts became unbearable. At Virginia City, on Nevada's silver-veined Comstock Lode, local mishaps and bonanzas were recorded by the Territorial Enterprise, as freewheeling and free-shooting a weekly as the U.S. has known...
...Comstock Commotion, Author Lucius Beebe tells the story of the Territorial Enterprise, which tells the story of the Comstock. Once an Improper Bostonian, Beebe has long been fascinated with the West. In 1951 he settled down in Virginia City, and soon became publisher of the Territorial Enterprise and a full-time Westerner. Now he writes of his new home town with the same purple pen he used to describe Eastern gin-mills for the New York Herald Tribune: "The saloons of Virginia City," he rhapsodizes, "then and now the drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate...
...Have No Bonanzas. The Territorial Enterprise was launched at Mormon Station in 1858, later settled in Virginia City, where more than 100 saloons and an annual per capita consumption of 22½ gallons of "strong waters," one-third whisky, made it a newspaperman's paradise. The Enterprise's first big story was the war between Nevada's settlers and the Piute Indians. Coverage of shootings, stabbings and embezzlements were always homey. Sample news story...
When Nevada became the Union's 36th state, the bonanzas petered out and Virginia City became a ghost town. Its weekly's noblest achievement probably came at news of the Union victory over the South. For three days the Enterprise published nothing, not even the victory news. Writes Author Beebe: "Its staff, from owner to the least apprentice, was dissolved in [a] universal sea of whisky...