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Down in No'th Ca'lina, which some unkind person once called a valley of self-consciousness between two mountains of conceit (Virginia and South Carolina), they appreciate a politician. When Jim Farley stopped off at Charlotte's Southern Railway station one day last week, the mayor gave Democratic Chairman Farley the city's key, Charlotte's postmen gave Postmaster General Farley a leather traveling bag and the Elks gave Elk Farley a hat which unfortunately proved to be a couple of sizes too small for his bald head...
...came up from plenty. Says he, who had more than one silver spoon in his cradle: "One with a family name has a lot to live up to." But Lawyer Taft, Yale '10, put the spoons to work. Uncle Charles had a chunk of Cincinnati's Street Railway System, wanted the complicated setup reorganized. Specializing in dry, dull, technical cases, Bob Taft worked on this complex chore off-&-on for eleven years, finished straightening it out in 1925. In this job, as in many another since, he displayed his talent for figures, often amazing his uncle, Mathematician Louis...
...Villard's father, Henry Villard (originally Heinrich Hilgard), builder of the Northern Pacific Railway, came to the U. S. from Germany at 18. Mr. Villard himself was born in Wiesbaden, Germany...
...visited the scene of battle, saw bodies of Russian dead, confirmed Finnish reports of an undeniable Russian rout. The Russians have admitted a "withdrawal." The Finns have never claimed the destruction of more than 6,000 Russians.) >-"The foreign agencies allege that Finnish troops cut communications along the Murmansk railway and that this line is now 'completely paralyzed.'... In reality, the Murmansk railway has not suspended work for a single minute." (Possibly true. The Finns have blocked a branch line leading toward Finland, and isolated Finnish patrols have been trying to cut the main railroad, but only...
Japan's Army began its week of bungles by warning the French owners of the vital Haiphong-Yunnan Railway, which aside from the Burma highway is the last uninterrupted trade route into Southwest China, to stop supplying China within two weeks, or else have every bridge bombed...