Word: virginian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norfolk & Western will go to the Pennsylvania. 6) The Virginian will be split between the Norfolk & Western and the Van Sweringen group...
Carter Glass, who succeeded Mr. McAdoo in the Wilson Cabinet, would loom in a proportion exactly inverse to his physical stature, which is today the smallest in the Senate. A proudly independent Virginian, he has commanded nationwide respect ever since the day in 1912 when, after 10 years in the House of Representatives, he unexpectedly became Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency. Financiers marked the way he shouldered the Federal Reserve Act through the House. Farmers learned that he knows their business, being himself engaged in it, and that though he talks little he talks their kind...
Lake Coal. To the annoyance of coal operators in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, the Commission refused to let freight rates be lowered 20 cents per ton by railroads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Louisville & Nashville, Hocking Valley, Virginian) which carry coal from that section to the Great Lakes, for transshipment to the Northwest...
Commander Byrd, pale and erect in Navy whites, had to shoulder most of the honors and speechmaking. A gallant Virginian, he repeatedly explained that his comrades were more creditable than himself, and it was to them all that President Louis Delsol of the Paris Municipal Council said: "Paris, gentlemen, salutes in you the United States." But it was to Commander Byrd directly that Marshal Foch said: "It was one of the great feats in history." Commander Byrd had the presence of mind to reply: "There is no one in the world I would rather hear say that than...
...controls Virginian...