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...Macon Aweigh...
...high-school pupils blared "Dixie." From the dock offices athwart the bow of the airship marched Mrs. Jeannette Whitton Moffett, mother of two Naval flyers with her spry 63-year-old husband Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett. With them came Goodyear-Zeppelin officials & wives, Mayor G. Glen Toole of Macon, Ga., eight beauteous Macon girls heavily bundled against the northern chill...
Clerking in a grocery store gave Claude Swanson the money to go to Randolph-Macon. There his close friend was James Cannon Jr., now the politico-religionist. He was long (1893-1905) a member of the House. The Jamestown Exposition was the biggest event of his governorship (1906-10). Twenty-three years in the Senate made him No. 1 Democrat on the Naval Affairs Committee. A Big-Navy man, he was sent as a delegate to last year's disarmament conference at Geneva, made his big speech in praise of battleships...
...volition last week Central of Georgia Railway went into receivership. It operates 1,900 mi. of track and a steamship service between Savannah, Boston and Manhattan. The first section of the road was finished in 1833. It ran between Savannah and Macon (191 mi.) and was the longest railway in the U. S. Outstanding against it are $58,000,000 worth of bonds. At Birmingham its lines connect with those of Illinois Central which owns all of its common stock. These holdings have been pledged with the R. F. C. as collateral on a loan to Illinois Central. President Lawrence...
...curious to know why he states this with so much apparent relish. Out & out pacifists might rejoice in refraining from waving the American flag, and if this is Macon's attitude, why name a fighting airship of the U. S. Navy after...