Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands of Senators and Congressmen interested in their own reelection. Few party angels are available on demand (Houstonian Jones appeared as an archangel); between elections the national organization collapses completely or in part, depending on the enthusiasm of the national chairman. It was no secret at Houston that West Virginian Clem L. Shaver had little love for the job, little respect from the party...
...outdone by her politically active sister, Manhattan's Langhorne came last week to Houston. No scion of a Virginian First Family, no Maryland Ritchie or Bruce, held her allegiance; she marched in the parade of the Brown Derby...
...Pennsylvania would take the Lehigh Valley, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois or Chicago & Alton, trackage rights along Lake Erie, the Norfolk & Western, use of the Virginian...
...took the form of a bow, some thanks, an exhortation to keep fighting and a promise to vindicate the fighters' choice. Representative Dyer of Missouri enlivened the evening with a veritable placing-in-nomination speech, but of greater significance was a statement by Campbell Bascom Slemp, astute Virginian. Mr. Slemp, onetime (1923-25) private secretary to President Coolidge and until that evening known as an outstanding "Coolidge-anyway" man, confessed to personal Hooverism and virtually promised the hitherto uninstructed Virginia delegation (15 strong). Also, since Mr. Slemp's talent for delegate-charming is almost fabulous, and since...
Sherwood Anderson, author of Dark Laughter, collects news from Coon Hollow, Spratts Creek, Troutdale, Marion and many another Virginian village, prints it in two weekly newssheets. When he bought the Smyth County News and the Marion Democrat (combined circulation, 5,000) he explained to whom it might concern: 'I am doing it primarily to make a living. My books have never sold." Last week Editor & Publisher Anderson confided to readers of the Democrat: "The trouble with us is that we have to write the whole paper, and make our living nights. You can't make money and have...