Identifier: reviewofreviewsw59newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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a reminiscent mood. Is evjspaper Owner and Editor . . . owns the Daily Neivs, the morningpaper of the city, and the Daily Advance, theafternoon paper; member of Virginia StateSenate 1899-1903 and Virginia ConstitutionalConvention in 1901-2; eight years member ofBoard of Visitors University of Virginia . . .Congressional Directory, Undoubtedly the foreman of the printingshop in which the young Glass worked pre-dicted with periodical regularity that thatboy would come to no good end becausethat is the way with printing-office foremenand their devils. But it is not hard to realizethat before long that foreman was beginningto believe that that boy Carter would getsomewheres. In the South many news-paper men are produced from the printingshop. Carter Glass was not long in observ-ing that his education would have a freerplay in the editorial offices of a Lynchburgnewspaper and he followed that gleam withhis characteristic persistence. That he wouldbe successful in his ambition to make this
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@ Harris & Evving, Washington, D. C. HON. CARTER GLASS, OF VIRGINIA, SECRETARY OFTHE TREASURY change was inevitable and no less so thatfrom reporter and editor he should becomeowner. Now in the South the editor and owner ofa daily newspaper wields a might\ power, es-pecially if he be equipped to take advantageof his position. Within a brief space, theforce of Mr. Glass pen began to make itselffelt in the Old Dominion. He was wellalong on his curs us Jionoruni. As riversrun to the sea, he became a representative ofhis community in the Senate of Virginia, 372 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS bringing to Richmond the personality whichhad enabled him to make his way in thelesser metropolis of Lynchburg. The phrase in the Directory biography,eight years member of Board of VisitorsUniversity of Virginia, may not mean agreat deal to people who do not know Vir-ginia and the South. In those States southof the Mason and Dixon Line, educationand seats and institutions of learning havean old-ti

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