On this day in 1921: A banquet at Monroe’s Hotel Joffre welcomes Marshal Ferdinand Foch, commander of Allied forces during World War I, in the only N.C. stop on his nationwide victory tour. Foch was scheduled to dine in Charlotte, but the Southern Railway refused to pull his private railroad car from the Monroe yards […]
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Why Marshal Foch dined in Monroe: Railway’s pettiness
Posted in History, On This Day, tagged charlotte nc, gov cameron morrison, josephus daniels, marshal foch, monroe nc, seaboard airline on December 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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