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...benefit (TIME, Dec. 15). It asked Congress to repeal the provision. Because Congress failed to act, because therefore Section i$a is still the law of the land, the I. C. C. last week made its first final assessment thereunder against a Class I railroad. The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R. R. ("Washington-Richmond Line") was ordered to hand over $891,696.84 as its recapturable excess profit...
...North had collected itself and learned how to fight, Stuart's cavalry had the edge over the Yankees. But every brush cost him some irreplaceable men and horses. Besides skirmishes he was in every big battle in the East: first and second Manassas, the Seven Days' Battle, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam, the Wilderness. When McClellan invaded Virginia, Stuart's 80-mile, 24-hour raid across his rear with 1,800 troopers and four guns established what Capt. Thomason thinks is a record: "I know of no equal exploit in the cavalry annals...
...Penitentiary, comparable in size to those at Atlanta and Leavenworth, situated "north of 38° north latitude [about Fredericksburg, Va.] and east of 80° longitude [Pittsburgh...
...place where Washington passed most of his boyhood has also been the subject of much controversy; recently this too has been settled, definite proof having been obtained that it was at the old Strother's Farm opposite Fredericksburg. At present little remains of this historic farmhouse, with the possible exception of a shed popularly called "The Surveyor's Office," which might very well have been a chicken-coop...
...President Coolidge went into Virginia, dedicated with a speech the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial. He recited the history of Virginia's famed sons beginning with Nathaniel Bacon. Patrick Henry, George Washington. He lauded the courage of General Robert E. Lee. And then: "The main reason why we can .all join in the movement to commemorate the deeds of immortal valor which marked these battlefields is because we all realize that out of a common expiation our common country has been greatly blessed. . . . The growth which our country has made since 1860 and the benefits which...