Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High among the Ds were the House Rules Committeemen (including Democrats Cox of Georgia, Clark of North Carolina, Smith of Virginia; Republicans Mapes of Michigan, McLean of New Jersey) who long delayed a vote on Wages-&-Hours. Others of the 39 House...
Pennsylvania Railroad Co., which gets fat freight income from coal, asserted that State industries might be robbed of much-needed revenue. Steelman Wolcott replied that he bought only 55,000 tons of Pennsylvania coal a year, anyway (plus 20,000 tons from West Virginia), would continue doing so-unless continued losses forced him to close the plant. Coatesville townsfolk, about 90% of whom depend on Lukens for a living, backed his plea and last week Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission decided Lukens could buy its gas direct from Columbia's subsidiary. Henceforth, instead of the 20,000 tons...
...organizer, an A. F. of L. delegate, Publisher Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a representative of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Southern business was represented by a lumber man from Picayune, Miss., a Birmingham banker, an aviation-company official from Dallas, a Virginia utility man, a Ken tucky varnish maker, and President J. Skottowe Wannamaker of the American Cotton Association...
Yellow Jack (Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Henry Hull, Charles Coburn, Virginia Bruce; TIME...
Last week, the University of Virginia's Institute of Public Affairs at Charlottesville heard two speeches on freedom of the press from two men whose speeches are usually delivered by others and whose major concern is freedom of publicity...