Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obeyed, he barred cameramen from the committee room. The week prior Senator Glass, denouncing the committee's helter-skelter procedure, had declared: "We're having a circus here and the only things lacking are peanuts and colored lemonade." When told of Lya Graf, the peppery little Virginian sniffed a contemptuous "I-told...
When will people, who allow their imaginations to dictate what they write, learn if there has ever been an example of fair treatment and devotion between two races so widely different in color and status, it is to be found in the tolerant relationship of the Virginian and others of his class in the South, and the devotion toward him of his colored friends...
...haven't slept an hour since night before last," Senator Glass declared out of the corner of his mouth. But fatigue did not diminish the little Virginian's ardor of exposition. He admitted that there were sections of the bill that "shocked" him. Pointing to its anti-hoarding provision as "arbitrary," he said: "I don't know who there is with wit or wisdom enough to define hoarding...
...were speaking (Religion, Dec. 5) of the Virginian, Ashby W. Hardy, the poster of religious signs...
...Four has much to do. C. & O. must arrange to buy Lehigh Valley from Pennsylvania and the closely held Bessemer & Lake Erie from U. S. Steel Corp. Pennsylvania must shuffle off its New England holdings. New York Central must persuade the Henry Huddleston Rogers estate to part with Virginian, now held for a fancy price. B. & O. must buy New York Central out of Reading and complete its ownership of Western Maryland. As each system pieces together its many parts, it must appear before the I. C. C. with an application to execute its share of the general plan...