Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moving to higher ground. Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle," the downtown district where the Monongahela and Allegheny meet to form the Ohio, got its feet wet near the river banks, but there was no likelihood of a repetition of last March's 46-ft. flood stage. West Virginia bore the flood's brunt in the upper Ohio valley. Rising 2 in. an hour toward a 47-ft. crest, the river submerged residential Wheeling Island and the Red Cross ordered its 10,000 inhabitants evacuated. Bus and trolley service was virtually abandoned and, with mills crippled and mines flooded...
Three days prior, the President had sent to Congress his program for governmental reorganization. Vastly vexed by this Presidential move was Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, not only because he had been about to take the spotlight with a reorganization plan of his own, but also because the President's program failed to encompass the economies which the Vir ginia Senator champions. The. RFC extension bill gave him his first chance to trans late his displeasure into action. He rose in the Senate to object...
Warm, like-minded friends are Virginia's junior Senator and its senior Senator, Carter Glass. But one day in 1928 a Texas businessman-admirer of Statesman Glass visited Harvard's Business School, found no portrait of its namesake in the School's Glass Hall, promptly had one painted. Soon afterward the two men met, and ever since Carter Glass and Jesse Jones have been the stanchest of friends, the warmest of mutual admirers. Senator Glass calls Chairman Jones the ablest administrator in Washington. First of this month he moved from Washington's Raleigh Hotel, where...
Resigned. Major General John Archer Lejeune, 70, U. S. M. C. retired, onetime (1920-29) commander of the Marine Corps; after eight years as superintendent of Virginia Military Institute; in Lexington...
...creditors filed a reorganization petition at Freeport, 111. The company denied insolvency (which it did again last week) and had the case transferred to Chicago. Judge Holly then denied ex-President Clarke the right to intervene except as a creditor, which he did in a new action filed in Virginia, where U. P. & L. is incorporated...