Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land, after a month of agitation, formally petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission last week for a 15% freight rate increase. The three other reasons are: Depression, motor trucks, pipelines. At their Manhattan meeting fortnight ago (TIME, June 22) the carrier executives named three of their colleagues to approach the I. C. C. Representing the Eastern roads was big, breezy John Jeremiah Pelley, who rose from Illinois school-teaching to head New York, New Haven & Hartford. Henry Alexander Scandrett, whose long legal service with the Union Pacific trained him for the presidency of the reorganized Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, represented...
...Young Republican delegates mostly from petty jobholders. Last April he said: "Many of our universities and colleges are literally saturated with Radicalism. Text books, classroom lectures and private conversations ... are antagonistic to the traditional policies of the Republican party. ... As it is hopeless to expect a reform ... the approach to the young man and woman must be made independent of our educational system...
...been invited to excavate in Germany, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Hungary. These invitations will be accepted as soon as opportunity is found; indeed, some work in Jugoslavia is planned for next year. A recent visit to Belgrade established valuable connections there. As the expedition comes from America its disinterested approach is commonly recognized and it is able to accomplish what political boundaries would otherwise render difficult. Although the funds in hand are somewhat insufficient the staff has been able to excavate on a larger scale than has over before been attempted in that part of the world, with perhaps the exception...
...particularly William Randolph Hearst whose newspapers are the only chain in the U. S. to crusade endlessly against "dope." Up to last week the many antinarcotic sessions at Geneva have all proved abortive. No sooner had the latest League Conference met than its delegates fell to quarreling, failed to approach agreement on any of the oft-proposed, oft-rejected world narcotic limitation plans...
Sibelius' Swan of Tuonela by Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $2)?A glowing account of a hero's approach to the Finnish hell...