Tributes Paid To Glass At Birthday Celebration
Sweet Briar College honored Senator Carter Glass on his 82nd birthday with a professorship in government. Speakers, including Senator Harry F. Byrd, praised his liberal and conservative balance as the college presented the chair in his name. Glass thanked attendees and urged a government guided by sound, sane policy.
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D-Va
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Senator Glass Birthday Tribute at Sweet Briar College
At Sweet Briar College Jan 5 a ceremony saluted Senator Carter Glass on his 82nd birthday with tributes from colleagues. Senator Robert Byrd lauded Glass as Virginia’s outstanding senator, praising liberal and conservative principles and Glass’s lifelong public service.
Victor Hanger Dies at 64 in Amherst Home
Victor Hanger long time clerk of the Virginia Senate died of a heart attack at his Amherst home after returning from Richmond. A prominent Democrat born in Churchville he served 27 years as senate clerk and held local offices. Funeral set for 2 p.m. Saturday at his home with interment in East Cemetery.
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Virginia State Senate
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Churchville
Augusta County
Staunton
East Cemetery
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Grand Lodge of Virginia Odd Fellows
Robert L. Jones
Ave Levin
Winchester
Board of
Fusions
Grange Plans Free Textbooks and Education Reform
Richmond January 5 Dr Meade Ferguson head of Virginia Grange executive committee announced support for a three point educational program providing free textbooks an actuarially sound teachers retirement law and a 720 minimum average state appropriation per teacher unit The program also backs broader tax base lower income tax exemptions oppose sales tax require financial responsibility evidence for auto drivers compulsory medical exams for driving permits and restrict highway funds use The group seeks stronger compulsory schooling support for vocational agriculture home economics and 4 H Club work expanded preventive medicine indigent care V P II support new Blacksburg experiment station livestock disease control and a liberal cooperative marketing act
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Meade Ferguson
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Blacksburg
Dairy and Food Division
Department of Agriculture
Adequate” Cooperative Marketing
Favor Holding Conference For Airport Plans
Representatives of cooperating agencies tentatively agreed to hold a regional conference on airport planning for seven Eastern States in Baltimore on January 24. The meeting aims to develop an aeronautics development program for Virginia West Virginia Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania New Jersey and New York.
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Baltimore
Morton L. Wallerstein
National Resources Committee
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Allan C. Perkinson
Harvey F. Lawy
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Albert H. Wessel
CAA
Harrisburg
R. M. Sanford
Virginia Planning Board
Wallerstein
Germans Continue Their Scout Work
Berlin dispatch reports continued artillery and aerial scouting activity in the German high command's communiqué. It notes livelier artillery on the Western Front at various points and systematic German air reconnaissance against Great Britain and France yesterday.
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Berlin
High Command
Great Britain
France
Machinery Industry Favored By Babson For 1940
Babson foresees 1940 as a peak year for the machine tool and machinery industries. He cites rising orders, broader demand beyond consumer goods, shipbuilding revival, and war prep boosting aviation and power sectors, with the long term trend upward despite cyclical swings.
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Roger W. Babson
Ien
America
Machinery Outlook for 1940 Faces Skilled Labor Shortage
Projections describe rapid load growth in the machinery and machine tool sectors with plans for costly new equipment in early 1940. The main risk cited is a shortage of skilled machine tool workers, alongside a warning to parents and schools that overemphasis on technical schooling may erode initiative and ideas, risking civilization.
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Frankennstein
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