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...formal resolution Congress last spring asked that question of Joseph Bartlett Eastman, radically brilliant Interstate Commerce Commissioner whom President Roosevelt made Federal Coordinator of Transportation and his alter ego on all rail matters. Last week Coordinator Eastman answered the question in a 350-page report, the core of which was: "Theoretically and logically public ownership and operation meet the known ills of the present situation better than any other remedy." But: "I am not now prepared to recommend . . . public ownership and operation . . . for the principal reason that the country is not now financially in a condition to stand the strain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eastman Answers | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

Last week Newton Diehl Baker. Philip Fox La Follette, Charles Francis Adams, John Cowles, Roland Morris and 12 other potent members of the Council got together and, presumably on President Roosevelt's say-so, picked Raymond Bartlett Stevens to head the new agency. For the last six years Mr. Stevens has served as foreign adviser to little King Prajadhipok of Siam, whose country has an external debt of ?8,500,000. An able New Hampshire lawyer, Mr. Stevens entered Congress in 1913, ran for the Senate at the end of his first term, was defeated. Woodrow Wilson kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dunners & Defaulters | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

Married. Margery Durant Campbell Daniel Cooper, aviation enthusiast, daughter of Motorman Crapo Durant; and Commander Fitzhugh Green. 45, arctic explorer, author (Bob Bartlett, Master Mariner; Martin Johnson, Lion Hunter; Dick Byrd, Air Explorer); in Bronxville. N. Y. It was her fourth marriage, his second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 4, 1933 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

President Wilson appointed Joseph Bartlett Eastman to the Interstate Commerce Commission as a Republican. In 1924 Mr. Eastman voted for La Follette. President Hoover reappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: $36.37 1/2 Rails | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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