Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginian. He lived well. He bought a Virginia estate in Culpeper County at an auction, without even warning his wife, who like his mother was a Richmond belle. She could hardly have objected when she saw the lovely Greekporticoed house on a hill, and the 650 acres that overlook the Rapidan River. There Stettinius, as a "gentleman farmer," still keeps blooded Guernseys, and sells 1,500 turkeys a year. Amid the lindens and old magnolias of "The Horse Shoe," he rides horseback and romps with his Dalmatian. Pepper (one of whose pups is owned by his friend George Catlett Marshall...
...charge of demobilization plans is 51-year-old Brigadier General William F. Tompkins, a soft-voiced, lantern-jawed Virginian who in 29 years has had a crack at just about every job there is in a military career, including flood control. He has been what the Army calls a "farmed-out" officer all his life. He has three sons in the services: one a major in the engineers, one a pursuit pilot in England, the third a marine in training...
...Virginian set off with an advance patrol. He called back: "You'll see me in Saint-Lô." Through all the fighting he had said his outfit would be the first in the town...
...descendant of a rebellious Virginian, hanged in 1676 by England's Charles II, was preparing last week to teach U.S. history at Oxford. He is tall, blue-eyed Thomas Jefferson ("The Colonel") Wertenbaker, Princeton's Edwards Professor of American History (The Founding of American Civilization). Princeton announced last week that he would shortly leave to fill Oxford's Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Chair...
...year old Virginian, Taylor began as an instructor of History at Harvard in 1925, after getting his A.M. degree here in 1922. He was made an associate professor in 1935, and was given the Henry Charles Lea chair in 1941. Chairman of the Division of History, Government, and Economics, Taylor specialized in the intellectual history of the Middle Ages, and in French Medieval History