Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...with milltowns: a single, great smoke-belching building or group of buildings surrounded by straggling rows of little dwellings. At Winston-Salem, east of the course, rises the Camel Cigaret Factory. Then the course goes via Appomattox over the red clay farmlands and scrub forests of eastern Virginia to Richmond's Richard E. Byrd Field. An hour later the plane slips into Hoover-Washington Airport. Here the pilot makes a careful check of weather ahead: fogs from the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River may be wet.-Setting out again the plane cuts halfway between the Capitol and Washington Monument...
...Harvard students are, Patrick Armistead Gibson '31, of Richmond, Virginia, Dudley Lee Harley 1G., of Martinsburg, West Virginia, Alfred Hayes, Jr. 1G.B., of Greenwich, Connecticut, James Parker Pettigrove 1G., of Machiasport, Maine, and Greenville Ross Holden '31, of Idaho Falls, Idaho...
...Richmond...
Died. Agnes Dillon Randolph, 55, great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, sister of Hollins Nicholas Randolph (president of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association), founder of tuberculosis service organizations in Virginia and Texas; in Richmond...
...George Washington, hitherto unknown to the public (see cut), presumably painted from life, the work of Rembrandt Peale. Simultaneously it became known that another Washington portrait had been brought to light. It was done by Rembrandt Peale's father Charles Willson Peale, has hung for years in Richmond's quiet Westmoreland Club. This canvas was "discovered" by one who dispenses portraits of the first U. S. President at 2 ? each by the millions: Post master General Walter Folger Brown. An nounced he: "It is a novel portrait -and a good portrait -one I had never seen copied before...