Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major result of last week's Virginia election was to shake the hopes of Hoovercrats of holding 1928 gains in the south. Another result, no less significant, was the subsidence of "Raskobism" as an effective issue within the Democratic Party. "Raskobism" became more respectable, more reputable, than it had been since last November when some 160,000 voters in Virginia supported men who approved of John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and intimate friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...invented by anti-Smith Democrats, "Raskobism" contains the following ingredients: one part Roman Catholicism, one part wetness, one part political irregularity (Mr. Raskob used to be a Republican), one part big business. The religious and prohibition issues were not directly focused by the two dry Protestant candidates in Virginia. The stigma of political irregularity had been allayed by Mr. Raskob's work for the Democracy in 1928; indeed, this stigma was transferred to the anti-Raskobians by their alliance with the Virginia Republicans in this year's primary. But still in the hearts of oldtime Democrats may have...
...more than any fifty men, is responsible for this stock crash," wrote Senator Carter Glass of Virginia last week to the Philadelphia Record. He?Charles Edwin Mitchell, head of National City-Bank?made no reply. Hostility of Senator Glass was an old story; besides, Mr. Mitchell had serious troubles to cope with. The still ominous market; the cancelled Corn Exchange merger; the rumored differences with his directors?Mr. Mitchell's position was carrying hazards with its honors...
...chubby brothers Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen. On each of the three Boards a different consolidation game is being played. Last week two bold moves were made on the Van Sweringen board. Master Atterbury made the first when he captured a valuable pawn, the Pittsburgh and West Virginia. His Pennroad Corp. bought for $50.000,000 from Frank E. and Charles E. Taplin the controlling interest in the road. The loss of this key road is a setback to the Van Sweringen merger plans, which does not displease the Brothers Taplin, arch-enemies of the Brothers Van Sweringen...
East: Harvard v. Yale at Cambridge; N. Y. U. v. Rutgers at New York; Army v. Ohio Wesleyan at West Point; Navy v. West Virginia Wesleyan at Annapolis; Fordham v. Bucknell at New York; Brown v. New Hampshire at Providence; Lehigh v. Lafayette at Bethlehem; Villa Nova v. North Carolina State at Philadelphia...