Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics. Of all U. S. Presidents, George Washington alone escaped. After his unanimous election he was hailed by a happy populace singing Yankee Doodle and Welcome, Mighty Chief. Back-biting and banner-waving came in with Adams and Jefferson. The New Englander was a "Monarchist," the Virginian a "maniac who sympathized with the French Revolution." In 1797 Adams voters paraded to Hail Columbia! and Adams and Liberty! Four years later the Jeffersonians were crying...
...This Virginian aristocrat, whose natural ability and profession of the law drove him against his inclinations into public life, had the same background, the same attitude as Washington, but a "far wider" range of intellectual and esthetic interests. A fine figure of a man (his sandy hair was six feet two inches from the ground) and brave, but no soldier, he served the Revolution in Congress and as Governor of Virginia. When Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, and out of their struggles to control Father Washington's ear arose...
...composer of Song-Flowers from A Child's Garden of Verses, Lady Astor promptly turned the full force of her Virginian invective...
Whopping bond issues already filed or under consideration include $60,000,000 for Shell Union Oil; $65,000,000 for National Dairy Products; $90,000,000 for Pacific Gas & Electric; $70,000,000 for Virginian Railway; $92,000,000 for Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit...
Erroneous is the popular legend that Monopoly was originally devised by Henry George to demonstrate the validity of his single tax theories. The basic patent on Monopoly was obtained by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Phillips, a Virginian who is indeed a single taxer and developed the idea years ago under names like Business and The Landlord's Game. Monopoly in its present form was patented by an unemployed Philadelphian named Charles B. Darrow, whose last job (1930) was with a coal company lecturing dealers on new anthracite uses. Inventor Darrow built the first set in 1931, sold...