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Married. Britton Ihrie Budd, 56, president of the Chicago Rapid Transit Co. ("L") lines; to Miss Marie Sheehan, 31, his onetime private secretary; in Chicago...
...Chicago Tribune, potent newspaper, knowing that the best scheme to maintain prestige is to fight for principle, last week invented another for which it will (editorially) battle: Purchase of Western Railroads by Western Investors.* Thus, while President Ralph Budd of the Great Northern and Harry Byram of the reorganized Milwaukee (old name: St. Paul) stump the west concerning the merger of the northwestern railroads, the Tribune argued: "What this [west] section does require from its railroads and what it is not receiving in proper measure, is prompt response to public demands for service. Translated for the railroad stockholder that means...
...week was underwritten by the following names: William George Besler, President of the Railroad Presidents of America; David White, Chairman of the Division of Geology and Geography of the National Research Council; Edward Francis Carry, President of the Pullman Co.; Charles Campbell, Deputy Minister of Mines for Canada; Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern Railroad; Stephen Tyng Mather, Director of the National Park Service; Hermon Carey Bumpus, American Museum of Natural History (1902-11); Charles Doolittle Waicott, President of the Smithsonian Institution; C. A. Fetterolf, International Mercantile Marine...
...there was one body which made the rest seem shoddy. It covered the spare, fierce bones of the fastest "stock" car in the world, the 100-horse-power Mercedes. It was made of steel, painted green, by Edward Budd of Philadelphia. From a trunk swung low behind the gas tank, the curve of the tonneau rose to melt in grace, in vibrant repose, in transcendent muscular languor, into the forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop...
...from the hotel in which the Mercedes was exhibited, another car with a steel body by Budd lay on its side?a Jordan which had just rolled down a 90-foot embankment in North Carolina. Mechanics righted it. The body, which had somersaulted six times, was practically unhurt. Away it drove to the Jordan plant 1,000 miles distant to be rehabilitated...