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...last week one Joseph Rosier climbed into his car, said good-by to Fairmont, West Va., where he had lived for 44 of his 71 years, and drove to Washington. There, behind a walnut desk, he gingerly sat himself down, pulled up his black pants and plunked his feet on a drawer. For the next two years he was to be addressed as "Senator...
...trans formation was a homelier story of American politics. When West Virginia's overdressed, cadaverous Matthew Mansfield Neely quit the Senate to become Governor of the State last Jan. 12 at midnight, he exercised his new gubernatorial power to appoint as his successor his old friend Dr. Joseph Rosier, president of Fairmont State Teachers College. But Homer Adams Holt, who retired as Governor that same night, likewise claimed the right to make the appointment, naming his old friend Clarence Eugene Martin, ex-president of the American Bar Association...
...railroads after the 1929 crash it has been all famine. After four years of famine, Baldwin was so short of working capital that in 1935 it went into reorganization. But last week it had more than $30,000,000 worth of orders on the books, and things looked far rosier-but not for locomotives...
...others. Ordinary softball parks seat 4,000, cost $3,500 to build and, with 10? admissions attracting crowds from 1,000 to capacity, may pay for themselves in a month. Principal rival to the American Association is the National Association, run by a onetime baseballer and sportswriter named Philip Rosier. Next year, Promoter Rosier plans a big-league circuit, with professional teams in nine Midwestern cities...
...that the Government is willing to let the Greek people vote on whether they want a republic or a monarchy. Greek politicians hastened to climb on the monarchist bandwagon. And George II dodged mysteriously and importantly around Paris and London, letting underlings whisper to newshawks, "The future looks much rosier...