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JEFFERSON THE VIRGINIAN (484 pp.)-Dumas Malone-Little, Brown...
With the second part, at least, of this famous statement by Henry Adams, Columbia's Professor Dumas Malone agrees. In this first installment of a four-volume work on Jefferson and his time, Malone has drawn a careful portrait of the tall, sandy-haired young Virginian who drafted the Declaration of Independence and struggled with dignity through two harassing years as Virginia's war governor. Malone's touches are precise and measured rather than fine; neither lights nor shadows are handled warmly, and his picture remains academic. But he does supply a sound and scholarly account...
Young was quite prepared for the attacks of such opponents as the Virginian Railway, a C. & 0. competitor in the coal-hauling business; of old enemies in the Nickel Plate, whose control he had given up; and of the Chrysler Corp., which said that it feared higher freight rates for automobiles because of less railroad competition. But Young was not prepared for a sharp heel in the teeth from the bride-to-be herself...
...witness against Young, the Virginian called two officials of the New York Central. Said Jess P. Patterson, Central's general freight traffic manager: "I did not like the reference to a trial marriage . . . that kind of marriage ends in disaster. . . . Such a merger is not a good thing for the Central." Did W. F. Place, Central's vice president in charge of finance, think the marriage would improve Central's credit standing? Said he tersely: "No." Young's flustered counsel hastily asked for a recess. At week's end, as ICC took the case under...
...Norfolk, the emigres found themselves in a swampy, slave-owning country where Negroes were "held in a state of debasement which astounds even the inhabitants of the [French] colonies." While noting that "nowhere does the English language have such sweetness and charm as on the lips of a pretty Virginian," Moreau found nothing pretty in the character of Virginia men, who "cultivated extremely long fingernails, with which to scratch out the eyes of those with whom they fight...