Word: warrenton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convicted of simple assault & battery were three Warrenton, Va. aristocrats who last June oiled & feathered Washington Society Chit-Chatter Count Igor Cassini, because they did not like his printed references to their families and friends (TIME, July 3). Ian Montgomery, 38, took all the blame, thereby pulled the teeth of the indictment for mob assault, which might have jailed the trio for ten years each. To a court jampacked with Fauquier (pronounced faw´-kee-a) County hunt society, a Fauquier County jury declared the act a misdemeanor, ruled that their fun would cost the defendants $500 (Ian Montgomery...
...swank, fox-hunting Warrenton, Va., Washington Society Columnist Count Igor Cassini (grandson of the late Tsarist Ambassador to the U. S. Count Arthur Cassini) was lured from a country-club dance, tarred & feathered by five aristobrats. Arrested next day were Ian and Colin Montgomery, Alexander Calvert. Reported the Count: "I recognized Ian Montgomery and asked him, 'Why are you doing this to me?' He said I had written in my column that his mother was invited to the reception for the King and Queen of England and that his father had not been invited...
...Sophomores who have had their scholarships renewed are Wiley F. Barker, Santa Fe, N. Mex.; John A. Bradshaw, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Roger E. Clapp, Indianapolis, Ind.; Irving M. Clark, Jr., Bellevue, Wash.; Julian C. Eisenstein, Warrenton, Mo.; Thomas L. Eliot, Winnetka, Ill.; Charles E. Feazel, Jr., West Monroe, La.; Robert D. Forsberg, Hudson, Ohio; Max D. Gaebler, Watertown, Wis.; John W. Goddard, Indianapolis...
Editor of the Raleigh, Va. News and Observer, son of Josephus Daniels, Ambassador to Mexico, 36-year-old Jonathan Daniels began his tour of exploration at Arlington National Cemetery. On through Williamsburg, Author Daniels drove his Plymouth, wondering if he could locate in Warrenton the poker game that is said to have been going on ever since the Civil War, with hands descending from father to son. After he had driven through the textile towns of the Carolinas-Gastonia, Kannapolis, Spartanburg-he began to note the mansions of the Coca-Cola millionaires, and to speculate about their significance. "Wealth...
...cotton farmers who were short of help offered cotton pickers in Warren County 75? a 100 lb., plus a drink of corn whisky morning and evening. Following this, farmers in Warren County, where pickers were getting 40? a 100 lb. and no drinks, took shotguns to their fields. Said Warrenton's Sheriff, G. P. Hogan...