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...While he spoke, word sped through the Capitol that Virginia's whip-tongued Carter Glass, third Wilson Secretary of the Treasury, would rise to answer him. When the frail, 78-year-old Virginian pulled himself to his feet, face pale and drawn, eyes flashing, the Senate galleries were packed and every seat on the Democratic side was filled...
...Button & Co. has been publishing good books for 77 years. Grand Old Man of Button's is a white-whiskered Virginian named John Macrae, 68, president since 1923. A longtime Button custom has been to give employes a Christmas ''bonus'' of a new $10 bill. Last year Depression cut the bonus to $2.50, to the mental anguish of the three proud litterateurs who accept or reject Button books. Last week the three got together beforehand and resolved not to accept another $2.50 tip. When the cashier appeared with the envelope, each said with decision, "Thank...
Last winter Virginia's Carter Glass, as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, found the Relief bill shot through with such befuddling phrases as "The President is authorized ... to make grants and/or loans and/or contracts." Flying into a fine rage, the peppery little Virginian marched out on the Senate floor, successfully defended his action in striking out "the idiotic expression 'and/or''; wherever it appeared in the bill. To his support Senator Glass summoned an impressive battery of opinion against "and/or...
...have been the brightest stars in the dark railroad sky. Norfolk & Western is the highest-priced active rail on the New York stock exchange, pays $8 in dividends exclusive of extras, sells at $215 per share. Chesapeake & Ohio not only maintained its boomtime rate throughout Depression, but boosted it. Virginian skipped common payment for a while (though it is now on a $4 basis), quickly made up its one lapse on the preferred. And it never failed to cover interest charges by at least a 50% margin...
...Virginian's board chairman is Adrian Hoffman Larkin, executor of the Rogers' estate. Active head is President Carl Bucholtz, a heavy, thick-set baldish bachelor who makes his home in Norfolk's old Monticello Hotel. A graduate of Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacific and Erie, he often eats perched on a stool in the hotel's coffee shop, is rated a good judge of fine whiskeys, has never been photographed, wastebaskets all inquiries from Who's Who, which does not list...