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...young West Virginian, whose chief backer is United Mine Workers, whose chief occupation in his State legislature was to get taxes imposed on utilities and chain stores, had no reason to doubt that he would be seated. A Democratic majority of 41 in the Senate assured him of that. His only miscalculation was that he did not expect the Senate to honor him with two days of graduation oratory...
...industry may fall into confusion but manufacturers of ice-making machinery will probably profit. Almost no modern ice-making machinery has been purchased for nearly two years because installation required an NRA permit. If Southern coal fields regain their wage advantage over Northern fields, railroads like Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian, and Louisville & Nashville will gain traffic, and lines like New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago & Eastern Illinois will lose it. Machine tool makers expect a slackening in the recent heavy demand for labor-saving equipment now that wages & hours are purely a matter of private negotiation between employer and employe...
...whom live and vote south of the Potomac, are Mr. Byrd's constituents). But last year when the AAAmendments first came up, he balked. He led the fight that kept them from passage. Before the summer was out he moved over into the camp of his fellow Virginian Carter Glass. "There is enough of Thomas Jefferson left in me," said he. "to insist that . . . no Federal official shall invade or ignore the Constitutional rights of the individual citizen." Last week light-hearted Virginians crowned Miss Nella Veverka, daughter of the Czechoslovakian Minister to the U. S., queen...
...wholly incomplete list of papers which approved the Supreme Court's action would include the Birmingham -Herald, published in the State where the crime occurred: the Raleigh News and Observer, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Memphis Commercial Appeal urged the authorities of Alabama not to try the defendants again, saying that there is too much doubt concerning their guilt...
...whole the U. S. railroads failed to earn their fixed charges last year by $35,000,000. No less than 30 failed to earn their out-of-pocket operating expenses. Of course, many a road like Pennsylvania, Union Pacific, Atchison, Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian and Bangor & Aroostook earned not only fixed charges but dividends besides, but the great majority were deep in the red. A wage increase of 5% will take effect in April, topping two preceding raises of 2½% since last July. Traffic is not expanding. And while Jesse Jones might assure the carriers, as he did last week...