Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the District's voteless citizen-advisers beheld the House's handiwork, they sped to the Senate hot with anger. Virginia's Carter Glass promptly announced himself as a champion for scores of thousands of Federal workers not so fortunate as to work for Congress. What the House had done for itself, the Senate could undo. Pending redress, Columnist Raymond Clapper (Scripps-Howard) spoke for other nonimmune D. C. residents in words of measured scorn...
...Vice President Garner and others last week dissuaded West Virginia's anti-Roosevelt young Senator Rush Holt from introducing a resolution to put the Senate on record against a third term. Such resolutions were passed to head off third terms for Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge. Reason for Garner & Co.'s delay: lack of a sufficiently impressive majority just yet for the resolution...
...industry to employ only members of his United Mine Workers. But that did not end one of the fiercest wars in U. S. Labor: A. F. of L.'s small but growing Progressive Miners of America is still trying to proselytize Lewis men in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and elsewhere, lay the groundwork for demanding agreements in 1941. Meanwhile, the Lewis union, greatly strengthened by its victory, is chipping away at Progressive's main hailiwicks in Illinois, Kentucky...
...Final. Virginia Gayda, II Duce's journalistic shadow, confided that there were "secret conventions" in the Italian-German treaty, said the pact was a "final invitation" to Great Britain and France to "collaborate" in a European peace. Neither he nor any of his colleagues was at a loss to describe what they meant by "collaboration": Great Britain and France were to provide the dictator countries with "vital living spaces...
...have risen to $614,791 in 1937, $586,416 last year. Its stock, traded on the Curb, was only at $7.25 last week, but Founder Bowes has enough so that the annual 50?-per-share dividend enables him to indulge another expensive hobby besides yachting-a stud farm in Virginia...