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...Atlanta one day in 1945, a well-dressed man stopped his car to watch a farmer and his son laboriously grading a small field with the help of a decrepit old mule. The sight was a common one in the South, and it was not new to Robert Marion Strickland, 50, president of Atlanta's Trust Co. of Georgia (main Coca-Cola bank). But he had just been visiting a well-heeled farmer friend who had cleared and graded a 30,000-acre farm in a short time with heavy machinery. Bob Strickland decided on the spot to bring...
They could not afford to buy such machinery. But if the fees were reasonable, they could rent it. Strickland had his bank advertise for veterans who wanted to go into such a business, granted them loans of $10,000 to $20,000 with which to buy farm equipment. He invited country banks all over the state to join him, offered to underwrite loans up to 50%. The new farm contractors also got the free advice of an agricultural expert Strickland had hired to show them how to do their job and improve the soil while doing...
Most of the time Belle lived in a small house behind the Strickland Hotel in Front Royal, Va. She picked up news from Federal officers quartered in the hotel, sent her messages by Negroes to the troops under Stonewall Jackson. Whatever the value of her information, she was idolized by Confederate soldiers, feared and detested by Yankees, disdained by Southern ladies who noted in their diaries that they were not at home when she called...
...Great Day. On May 23, 1862, Belle became famous. The Confederates under Jackson and Ewell were advancing on Front Royal. The Federals were planning to retreat to Winchester, after burning their stores. They were scattered in seven small groups. Belle was in the Strickland Hotel in the morning when she heard the first Confederate rifleshot. As she rushed upstairs she met a newspaper reporter coming down. This was a Mr. A. W. Clarke, of the New York Herald, who had been trying for some time to do what is described in books like this as "force his attentions upon...
Last September the Regents' interference with their president became more than Texas' students could stand. President Rainey received a message from Regent Strickland to stop making so many speeches. Although the Regents promptly denied that they had made any such official request, the Daily Texan, campus newspaper, hit right back: "Instances of smalltown 'school boardism' . . . have been too many to overlook the report of a 'shut-up' rule to the president of the institution...