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Word: grasslands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution as.destructive of States' rights. He turned down a Senatorship, a post as Secretary of State under George Washington, those of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and of Minister to France under John Adams. Propertied himself, Henry retired to his 2,920 acres of rolling Virginia grassland in 1795, a bitter, disappointed man, angry with his Government and its leaders. He died at Red Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA: Two Angry Men | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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