Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dated May 17, 1768 and sent by way of Virginia's Acting Governor John Blair, Washington's letter sought from Gage a favor for some Virginian friends trading with Fort Pitt at the top of the Ohio Valley. They wanted Gage to promise not to make a boundary shift that would throw a block of Indian territory across their route between Fort Cumberland and Fort Pitt and give the market to the Pennsylvanians, who were trading over a more northern route. His request, said Washington, "can give no offense to the Indians, nor any one else, unless there...
...three years to run, so that he could return to the magazine he left six years ago. Two other associate editors taken on in 1937 are Stuart Rose, Ladies' Home Journal fiction editor who does not take office until February, and Joseph St. George Bryan III, a parsimonious Virginian who edits the "Post Scripts" page and contributed one of the smartest Post biographies of the year, 0. 0. Mclntyre's. Another Junior member of the staff is Richard Thruelsen, a onetime Army flyer, who writes ''Keeping Posted...
Pare Lorentz, a West Virginian, at 36 is senior among nationally-known cinema critics. He made The Plow that Broke the Plains for $12,000 to enter the U. S. in the documentary film field, then had to get out and distribute it to independent exhibitors, the big companies having turned thumbs down on it, presumably because it represented government-in-the-movie-business. The River cost just short of $50,000, took a six-man crew six months on a 22,000-mile tour of the Mississippi valley. Just when the camera work seemed finished, in January, came...
...eggs, even non-rancid olive oil-items generally missing from the present Madrid cuisine. The American newsmen, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans now residents of the once ducal palace have to thank no U. S. diplomatic or consular representative for these wholesome victuals, but Captain Frank William Cannaday, a gloomy, stubborn Virginian who fought in the Spanish-American War and prospected for gold in Venezuela before becoming a poultry farmer on the Castilian plateau...
Died. Benjamin Lloyd Belt, 70, president of the tobacco firm of P. Lorillard Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitefield, N. H. Tobacconist Belt, a horse-loving Virginian, became president of hoary P. Lorillard in 1924, immediately brought out Old Golds to keep pace with younger competitors...