Word: fairfax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fairfax Harrison, Southern Railway...
...Standish E24 Mr. Henry Pennypacker Shepard's Block 5 Madison Sayles 3G.B. Walter Hastings 52 *H. M. Hart Jr. 3L. Walter Hastings 16 *W. J. Kyle Jr. 3L. Westmorly 2 E. M. Weld Jr. 3L. Westmorly 124 G. A. Morgan Jr. 4G. Morris D 11 Prof. Joshua Whatmough Fairfax 307 *E. M. Dowe Prescott Hall K. J. White 3G 25 Holyoke St. R. S. Kersten 44 Brattle *W. J. Bender
Kemal Djenany Bey, slender, swart Second Secretary of the Turkish Embassy in Washington, drove last week with a friend through Fairfax, Va., was halted by two state prohibition officers. Fisticuffing followed, from which Djenany Bey emerged with two black eyes. Arrested, he produced his diplomatic card, claimed immunity, was released. The officers said he had been driving wildly. Djenany Bey declared that the Turkish Government would demand a public apology. Witnesses of the encounter suspected that much of the trouble arose because the dusky diplomat had been mistaken for a Negro...
Passenger traffic on the Southern Railway has declined 30% in the last five years, motor travel of course being the competitive influence. But while the auto was reducing passenger income it was increasing freight income. Fairfax Harrison, Southern president, estimated that 15% of Southern's 1928 freight traffic came from the automotive industry. Since Southern's 1928 passenger revenue was $24,000,000, of which 30% would be $7,200,000; and its freight revenue was $108,000,000, of which 15% is $16,200,000, the horseless carriage on the whole did not do so badly...
...Hammond (daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Spain), Bernardsville, N. J.; Miss Anne Gordon Colby, daughter of ex-Senator and Mrs. Everett Colby, West Orange, N. J.; Miss Anne Washington Ferine, lineal descendant of both the brother and half-brother of George Washington, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Ronald Randolph Fairfax, Roanoke, Va.; Miss Mary Seton Lindsay, Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. John Marshall Slaton, wife of the onetime Governor of Georgia, Atlanta; Miss Alcy Sivyer, Milwaukee; Miss Sylvia Brewster, Miss Charlotte B. Brown and Mrs. Lawrence B. Van Ingen, New York; Mrs. Edward A. Leight, Chicago; Miss Elizabeth Sturges, Providence...