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...superior is the Presiding Bishop of the 'rotestant Episcopal Church, lank Virginian lenry St. George Tucker, who spent 25 years...
...tied with marks of 85. There would be another quiz to determine the winner. One nervous man-black-haired Lester B. Stone, onetime executive secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia-showed up on the stage. The second contender-plump, wealthy William Rogers Coe, banker and vice president of the Virginian Railway Co.-had given the whole thing up, was found across the street visiting some pals at LaRue's Restaurant...
Henle & Stephenson constantly buttonhole West Virginians in hotel lobbies, in Congress, at teas, in their offices, in Union Station. Then the pair goes on the air and tells all. They quote Congressmen's offhand comments on one another. They report who went to what luncheon, whose wife was not invited, who has been appointed to what. When a poem by a West Virginian gets into the Congressional Record, they rush the news to the home folks. When Kentucky-born Fred Vinson was appointed Federal Loan Administrator, they reminded their listeners that he had relatives "all over the western part...
...editorial. Said the News Leader: "It is plainly the duty of Mrs. Carter Glass to make it clear to her husband that his age and physical condition disbar him from further duty in the Senate and to prevail on him to tender his resignation. ... It is imperative that another Virginian . . . willing to fight against the march of radical forces ... be sent to Washington immediately...
...Virginian. He lived well. He bought a Virginia estate in Culpeper County at an auction, without even warning his wife, who like his mother was a Richmond belle. She could hardly have objected when she saw the lovely Greekporticoed house on a hill, and the 650 acres that overlook the Rapidan River. There Stettinius, as a "gentleman farmer," still keeps blooded Guernseys, and sells 1,500 turkeys a year. Amid the lindens and old magnolias of "The Horse Shoe," he rides horseback and romps with his Dalmatian. Pepper (one of whose pups is owned by his friend George Catlett Marshall...