Virginia, nicknamed “Old Dominion”, was admitted to the United States as the 10th state on June 25, 1788. The state capital is Richmond, though the largest city is Virginia Beach. Virginia is one of the original 13 colonies with the oldest settlement of Jamestown, and is famed for a va...
(Boatwright Memorial Library, The University of Richmond) Thurber wasn’t the only New Yorker writer to throw shade on Stein’s visit. In his “Books” column, Clifton Fadiman described Stein as a “mamma of dada” and a “Keyserling in divided skirts” (Hermann Keyserling was a non-...
This is really the first I’d ever heard of him, so I can’t imagine he’d have been much of a factor here; I can’t glean whether he was running on the left or the right, but he is African-American, so that in itself may shift at least a handful of votes in Cedric Richmond...
Frances Cooper was born in Jamesport, Missouri on July 20, 1920 to Forest Garvey and Libbie Hess Richmond. As a small child the family moved to a farm north of Mercedes, Texas. She graduated from Mercedes High School in 1937. During World War II, she lived in Alexandria, Virginia for fi...
and her suing for discrimination in response, of IRS audits that she blamed on “thug politics” and liens that she blamed on “computer errors,” of failure to pay for her college, and of using her campaign money to pay the rent on her house as it’s also her campaign headquarters. ...
Governor J.B. Pritzker and Illinois State Fire Marshall James A. Rivera honored more than 50 firefighters across the state for their heroic efforts earlier this week.
…it would happen about a year later…on Jan. 24, 1935, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company, in partnership with the American Can Company, delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale to drinkers in Richmond, Virginia… ...
Of course, if you're headed that way, to stop in the agricultural Redlands, your tropical fruit headquarters on the American mainland — for generations, Robert Is Here has been the region's best-known farm stand, where they wake up each morning to prepare vast quantities of fresh fruit ...
THE HQ…Communist Party of America headquarters, 13th St., New York City, 1934; a close-up view of the Workers’ Bookshop display window in 1942. (USC Libraries/Library of Congress) A regularNew Yorkercontributor, journalistMatthew Josephson(1899–1978) popularized the term “robber baron” wit...
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