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...Norfolk & Western will go to the Pennsylvania. 6) The Virginian will be split between the Norfolk & Western and the Van Sweringen group...
Seven snake eggs lay for seventy-seven years, sealed in a tree in Tullahoma, Tenn. Strong men came and split the tree, exposing an iron spike of the kind first used in the construction of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad in 1851. Around the spike was a decayed hole about five inches long, in which lay the tough, rubbery snake eggs. Having the good of Tullahoma at heart, down to the lowest snake, Mayor W. J. Davidson took the eggs to his heated office and gave them a place in the sun, atop his desk. Last week he noticed...
Looms this spring a French general election. Will the "Sacred Union Cabinet" of Premier Raymond Poincare hold together and face the country as a unit? For months jockeying politicians have been trying to engineer a split. Last week a great speech, eight hours long, was delivered on two successive days by Premier & Finance Minister Poincare. When he sat down virtually all correspondents cabled that the union of his Cabinet for election purposes is now monolithic. Was this news? Characteristically, the U. S. press played down or omitted a story of quiet, constructive achievement, so lacking in the ever welcome promise...
Building proposals have before this caused a sharp split. One need only name the War Memorial controversy which is still raging or the objections raised a few years ago when the new Business Schoool group was undertaken. Ordinarily, perhaps, the raising of a new building is purely a practical matter: a need exists for a building, say a new lecture hall, and the building is put up without dissent. It is when the practical clashes with an ideal, or with that immaterial substance known as sentiment that there arises disagreement, and sometimes bitter controversy...
...Borah's attempts to force a plank on Prohibition. But on the whole, the Republicans' present prosperous administration gives them an inestimable advantage. And with the parties representing, as they do now, two nearly equal, mighty, and issueless machines for the nomination for president by political bosses, a split in the Democratic party would be inevitably fatal...