Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than oafish drivel. Subscriber* Zweiger's confessed familiarity with the routine of sleeping off a debauch over Sunday doubtless explains why he has never met any of West Virginia's representative citizenship. His amazing inaccuracy is exemplified in his inference that the Ohio River was named for our excellent neighbor state to the north and west. The reverse is the case by nearly 200 years, bat what's 260 years to Mr. Zweiger...
...native of a state, excelled with difficulty by any other in scenic beauty, commerce, industry and education, allow me to invite TIME'S subscribers to come, see and enjoy the Switzerland of America. Our mountains, rivers, cities and churches will welcome them any day of the week, Sunday included. Visitors from west of the Ohio River will find it safe and enjoyable to park their "gats" at home...
...Subscriber* Zweiger's letter in TIME, Feb. 28 is rather caustic. Though not a West Virginian, I am familiar with the state and with the comparative virtues of its neighbor states. . . . Living only 50 miles from the Ohio River, Mr. Zweiger has manifestly never been up to Huntington, W. Va., a city after which Chillicothe might well pattern her ways. Being myself a native of Virginia, the original mother of these states, it grieves me to see much unwarranted mudslinging. . . J.H. HUFFARD Bluefield...
...himself, the real name of his "John T. Davis." 4) Is Subscriber* Zweiger an American citizen ? 5) How many states have produced presidents? Are all of those who have not, then, to be looked down upon ? 6) Does he know that "his" state ia named for a West Virginia River? 7) Has he ever viewed the panorama from Hawk's Nest, has he ever driven up the New River Gorge, has he ever seen anything in nature in the State of Ohio that can compare with the scenic beauty of West Virginia ? 8) Why he slurred over the request...
...Saturday, March 19; Sidney R. Kent, General Manager, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation will speak on "Distribution", on March 22; on March 24, R. H. Cochrane, Vice-President of Universal Film Corporation, will speak on "Advertising and Exploitation; and on March 26, A. H. Garland, President, Bowery and East River National Bank of New York, will have for his subject, "Finance". The lectures of the last week will be: "Foreign Development", on March 29, by William Fox, President, Fox Film Corporation, "Theatre Management", on March 30, by Marcus Loew, President, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation; and "New Developments in Motion Pictures...