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Again, many a Washingtonian had ridden down to the same hilltop to join a crowd of some 40,000 cheering, rebel-yelling spectators. Five thousand automobiles were parked around the field. Through loudspeakers, Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, editor of the Richmond News Leader and biographer of Robert E. Lee, began telling the story of the battle. Listeners grinned as this son of a Confederate veteran kept referring to the Southern forces as "our side." In the stands sat Harry Wooding, 92, mayor of Danville, Va. since 1892, who had fought under Longstreet at Manassas. Also present was General Longstreet...
...charge of this project was a compact, wirehaired, effective native Washingtonian just 40 whose name, after 16 years in the Government service, has lately emerged as a household word, Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. With an appropriation of $50,000 and an enthusiastic waiting list. Director Hoover decided: "First we'll crawl. Maybe after that we'll walk, maybe run, maybe fly." By rigid adherence to this careful program of crawling, walking, running and flying Director Hoover has built in the past decade one of the finest, most efficient law enforcement agencies the world...
...Besides fame and money, the course which he chose has brought him, from a part of the public and from his more conservative but less gifted colleagues, a certain suspicion and disdain. Socially ambitious, he has never been accepted in Washington society's inner circle. But many a Washingtonian, including members of the Gridiron Club whom he entertains every year, is glad to attend the large and elaborate dinners he gives in his home on swank Sheridan Circle. Sentimental, warmhearted, likable, democratic, he is president of Washington's Alfalfa Club (men's dining), onetime president...
...swung a third in Mary of Scotland (1934). His melancholy face with its skin stretched across the cheekbones like rawhide on a saddle frame, his clipped speech and full-stopped voice make him ideal for impersonating tragic historical figures. In spite of a tilted, completely un-Washingtonian nose, he admirably conveys an entirely credible portrait of the great general's sombre personality...
...rallied their cliques, brought their jockeying for the presidency out into the open. Least involved in the intrigue was gentle, popular Hugo August Winkenwerder, longtime Forestry dean. He got the job, as acting president. But no one felt that he would last long and facultymen were unruly. Apparently no Washingtonian could bring peace. The Regents decided to pass the word around that the job was open, wait for applications. They came in floods. Typical was one from a small-town high school principal who "had a knack of making himself liked and thought he would make a good university president...