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...Virginian (1902) Owen Wister...
...railroads also continued to build. Their new line construction in 1933 totaled 24.24 mi., smallest since the first steam road was built 102 years ago. Of this total 11 mi. were built by the Virginian as the last section of a connection with Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk 6 Western at Gilbert, W. Va. Another 7 mi. was built between Olmos and Quwmado Valley, Texas by Southern Pacific. Not included in last year's total was the 12½-mi. spur which Andrew William Mellon's little Montour finally completed in the face of injunctions plastered on almost every...
...South. Now Harry Burke, chairman of the Alexandria Park and Planning Commission, proposes to change the name to Monree Street, as he feels that "The teachings of Harvard University always have been alien to Virginia traditions," and he desires to honor the name of a famous Virginian. But Harvard is quickly defended by a surviving Barbara Frietchle, who in a letter of strong opposition to Mr. Burke signs herself "Damned Yankee and Proud Of It." A petition of 26 dwellers on the street has added reason to her cause, asking that the old name be retained in order to help...
Charles Lynch of Virginia deserves the eternal gratitude of all Americans, for he was . . . largely responsible for the instructions given the Virginian delegates to the colonial congress whereby the Declaration of Independence came into being...
With Secretary Ickes. the President put in an hour's work, several minutes' heavy kidding before leaving for the home of Secretary Swanson. But the Navy's old Virginian had a bad cold, was too sick to see his chief...