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...Peerage of England, the illustrious Howards stand next to the Blood Royal. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk is empowered, as the hereditary Earl Marshal of England, to bear ''in the King's presence or absence" a golden staff, the upper part adorned with the arms of the Royal Family, the nether part with those of the Family of Howard. The great Duke of Norfolk is charged as Earl Marshal with the proclamation of a new King's accession, with the supervision of the funeral of a late King, of the Coronation of his successor...
...Howard, in whose London town house King George III was born, busied himself last week first with proclaiming his friend Edward as King. Proclaiming is accomplished by the numerous Kings of Arms, the Heralds and the Pursuivants, appointments to these coveted offices being under control of the Duke of Norfolk. Last week precisely at 10 a. m. in colorful and resplendent uniforms, there stepped out upon the ivy-clad and scarlet-draped main balcony of St. James's Palace the young Duke as Earl Marshal, the Garter King of Arms, the Norroy King of Arms and the Clarenceux King...
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...commodity roads are supposed to be especially vulnerable, but in the last five years the Southern bituminous carriers have been the brightest stars in the dark railroad sky. Norfolk & Western is the highest-priced active rail on the New York stock exchange, pays $8 in dividends exclusive of extras, sells at $215 per share. Chesapeake & Ohio not only maintained its boomtime rate throughout Depression, but boosted it. Virginian skipped common payment for a while (though it is now on a $4 basis), quickly made up its one lapse on the preferred. And it never failed to cover interest charges...
Virginian's board chairman is Adrian Hoffman Larkin, executor of the Rogers' estate. Active head is President Carl Bucholtz, a heavy, thick-set baldish bachelor who makes his home in Norfolk's old Monticello Hotel. A graduate of Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacific and Erie, he often eats perched on a stool in the hotel's coffee shop, is rated a good judge of fine whiskeys, has never been photographed, wastebaskets all inquiries from Who's Who, which does not list...