Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Back shot the testy little Virginian, mentioning no names: "I may say that whatever prestige, if any, I may have was not gotten by using my position as a member of the Banking & Currency Committee of either house of Congress to gamble in foreign exchange with a prison-convict partner nor in any attempt to influence the action of the Federal Reserve authorities for my own pecuniary benefit...
...given the feeling that it is an inaccurate popularization. Mr. Wilson has obviously made copious use of the original sources and from them he has achieved an excellent picture of his subject. Although one gets a bit tired of hearing the hero referred to as "The Virginian" or Merne, and Thomas Jefferson as the "Sage of Albermarle" the writing is of the calibre which holds the reader's interest and makes the pages turn easily. Occasionally the style becomes a trifle plain and slow, but undoubtedly this will give place to a more easy flow as further books take their...
...Cantor) inherits $77,000,000 from an uncle who was an Egyptologist. When he goes to Egypt to collect his legacy, his task is complicated by an unscrupulous Virginia grandee, a male and female racketeer (Warren Hymer and Ethel Merman), a naive agent of his solicitors who loves the Virginian's niece (Ann Sothern). On the boat, Eddie barely escapes death at the hands of the racketeers. In Egypt he is lured to a sheik's palace, narrowly misses being boiled in oil by the sheik, being murdered by the sheik's prospective...
...Hurley to make the race. Dapper and dashing Republican Hurley claims Oklahoma as his political stamping ground but he has lived so long across the Potomac from his Washington law office that he is now eligible to become a Virginia voter. But neither Mr. Hurley nor any other Virginian worth a hoot would make the race. So the Republicans gave up. Mr. Byrd will go back to the Senate for six more years, not by election but by default...