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...their wives with a capital of $40,000. It took a drubbing in 1926, but coasted profitably into 1929. Then Floyd Odium began to smell Depression, to hoard his cash. When the October market barrage had subsided, he started picking up damaged investment trusts like Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Shenandoah Corp. and Blue Ridge...
...There is enough of Thomas Jefferson left in me," said he. "to insist that . . . no Federal official shall invade or ignore the Constitutional rights of the individual citizen." Last week light-hearted Virginians crowned Miss Nella Veverka, daughter of the Czechoslovakian Minister to the U. S., queen of the Shenandoah Valley apple blossom festival, and light-hearted Tennesseans made ready for Memphis' annual Cotton Carnival with William Nedy Mallory (All America football captain of Yale,1924) as King. But Congressmen were less lighthearted. They could see in their minds' eyes Harry Byrd handing them a ballot reading...
...Marshall innovations were trivial. He persuaded fashionable young matrons of the capital to work for the Times. Betsy Caswell, widow of the Shenandoah's Commander Lansdowne, did the cooking page; beauteous Mrs. Grace Hendrick Eustis reported politics; plump Nina Carter Tabb covered the hunts of the swank Middleburg and Warrentown set. Hugely successful, their columns helped budge the Times' circulation up to 106,800, only 6,300 less than the venerable Washington Star...
Married. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, 42, ranking survivor of the Shenandoah dirigible crash, who has flown more hours (4,000) in lighter-than-aircraft than any other U. S. flyer; and Jean Wilson, 32, Los Angeles department store buyer; in Manhattan...
Farther south he went, through the Shenandoah Valley where the sun sank scarlet behind the blue hills, through North Carolina with its little towns and their false-front buildings on Main Street. Finally the young man and his Ford reached Charleston, S. C. where the harbor water lay flat and blue. The thing he liked most in Charleston was the German cruiser Emden which one day steamed into port, made fast to a wharf. Mornings he watched brisk German sailors in white gymnasium suits doing setting-up exercises on the warship's decks. Finally after a good long look...