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Willard on Napes. As the rail representatives were closing Phase ! of the I. C. C. hearings with long wails about carrier credit, President Daniel Willard of Baltimore & Ohio, one of the half dozen executives who started the rate-increase ball rolling last May, was inspecting his new Chicago & Alton property in Kansas City. Drumming his fingers nervously he there declared: "We can't take the public by the nape of the neck and force it to ride. We can only give it such courteous and fair treatment that it will want to ride. The railroads come back? They haven...
Chicago & Alton called 1,000 men back to work...
...during the editorships of Norman Hapgood, Finley Peter Dunne and Mark Sullivan. ''Everyone'' read the magazine in those days of its rousing blasts against patent medicines, adulterated foods and adulterated politics. Those, too, were the days of the sensational libel suit brought by the late Col. William D'Alton Mann of Town Topics against the late Founder Peter F. Collier and Editor Hapgood (TIME...
...pound class: Alton (D) defeated J. J. Mellen '33, three rounds...
...town when the offending story was written. Publisher Keller's regime on Town Topics was until recently, relatively inconspicuous. Five years ago he succeeded the late Mrs. Emma Mann-Vynne who. five years previously, had inherited control from the founder, her father, Col. William D'Alton Mann. Under the direction of the baldpated, snowy-whiskered, plug-hatted Colonel, the magazine had a stormy 30-year career as Society's gossip-peddler. The Colonel died in 1920, leaving an estate...