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...calls Chairman Jones the ablest administrator in Washington. First of this month he moved from Washington's Raleigh Hotel, where he has lived for 22 years, to an apartment on Jesse Jones's floor in the Mayflower. Last week in the Senate the old but still peppery Virginian uprose to refute his junior colleague's argument...
...fond of a reckless college boy who runs liquor for the excitement until he is killed in a crash. But the strained, desperate life ends when Halsey turns against her, the gang breaks up. Halsey is killed by his son. Kit hides in the hills, where an easy-going Virginian befriends her. She decides to seek a less adventurous life...
...subject for novelists, since it took place slowly and unobtrusively and since it involved the transplanting of people who were still tied emotionally to the regions they had lost. Last week the uprooting of one Southern family formed the subject of a brooding, sympathetic novel by a young Virginian whose seriousness of purpose had not been revealed in his earlier books. Born in Lexington, Va. 35 years ago, Charles Wertenbaker began his career as a novelist with a lively story of adolescent cain-raising called Boojum!, followed it with another cut in the same pattern, Peter the Drunk, and with...
...treasurer. Remembering that the Secretary of the Treasury is not allowed to have a financial interest in trade, commerce or ships, reporters scurried to Senator Carter Glass to ask whether it was all right for the Chairman of the Reserve System actually to head an industrial corporation. The crusty Virginian, who disparaged Mr. Eccles' nomination to the Reserve Board, refused any comment, pointed dryly to the Federal Reserve Act which says merely "The members of the Board shall devote their entire time to the business of the Board and shall each receive an annual salary of $15,000. . . ." Presumably...
...politics. Of all U. S. Presidents, George Washington alone escaped. After his unanimous election he was hailed by a happy populace singing Yankee Doodle and Welcome, Mighty Chief. Back-biting and banner-waving came in with Adams and Jefferson. The New Englander was a "Monarchist," the Virginian a "maniac who sympathized with the French Revolution." In 1797 Adams voters paraded to Hail Columbia! and Adams and Liberty! Four years later the Jeffersonians were crying...