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...very determined little Virginian will board the White Star liner Calgaric bound for the Mediterranean, for the Holy Land. He will be dressed in the black cloth of the clergy. Undoubtedly newsphotographers will snap his picture, reporters take down his parting words. In one of his suitcases will be a parchment scroll hailing him as the most significant U. S. contributor to religious progress for 1928. He is Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
...Perhaps to be Secretary of Labor: William N. Doak, not because he is a Virginian but because, as vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers, he is an able representative of union labor...
...more smallpox than any other country of the world, except India. This situation irritates Dr. Cumming, an habitually serene Virginian. Chidingly he wrote to Congress...
...railroad electrification unit in the country. The St. Paul. whose partial electrification contributed most to that road's bankruptcy three years ago, has a total 646 miles of track. The Norfolk & Western, which carries coal across the Cumberland Mountains, has 77 miles of electrified track. The coal-carrying Virginian in the same territory has 231 miles...
...models (TIME, March 2, 1924 et seq.). Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum. "Delighted," said Mr. Borglum, with heavy irony...