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...City Council of Burlington, N. J. complained that Pennsylvania Railroad trains were breaking the city speed limit of 5 m.p.h. A police sergeant clocked them as high as 15 or 20 m.p.h...
...rest of the evening Jesse Lauriston Livermore, most fabulous living U. S. stock trader, sat brooding at his table while his wife danced with friends. It was just three years short of half a century since he had made his first play in the market-a $3.12 profit on Burlington Railroad common. He was 15 then, a board boy in Boston's Paine, Webber & Co. They told him to stay out of the bucket shops or quit his job. He quit. A towheaded greenhorn from West Acton, Mass., son of a poor Yankee farmer, he began beating the bucket...
...Healey 2L, Cambridge, Mass.; Bruce A. Hecker 2L, Hoboken, N. J.; George M. Heinitsch, Jr. 2L, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Irving J. Helman 2L, Brookline, Mass.; David G. Hertzberg 2L, River Rouge, Mich.; Walter L. Hiersteiner 2L, Des Moiner, Ia.; James L. Highsaw, Jr. 3L, Memphis, Tenn.; George E. Hill 2L, Burlington, Ia.; William Jordan, Jr. 2L, Forest Hills, L. I., N. Y.; John V. Kean 3L, Washington, D. C.; William C. Know, Jr. 3L, Winchester, Tenn.; Arthur L. Krenzien 2L, Omaha, Nebr.; Leonard E. Kust 2L, Madison, Wis.; George M. Lehr 3L, Jersey City, N. J.; Nathanael A. Lemke 3L, Milwaukee...
...Burlington, N. J., Etiquettical Emily Post made a political speech. Conceding President Roosevelt "a beautiful radio voice and social charm," she nevertheless raised her cultivated accents for tousled, frog-hoarse Candidate Wendell Willkie...
Into action went potent Publisher Carter. In a two-column, front-page editorial entitled Mr. Budd Bows His Neck he blazed away at Burlington President Ralph Budd (member of Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission) "for sacrificing the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway on the altar of Burlington front-office convenience." The "Burlington Boys," he roared, had put the "snatch" on the road to bolster deficit-ridden C. & S., were cold to the fact that 190-odd Fort Worthians would lose their jobs by removal of the offices to Denver. He even suggested that Texas, whose railroad taxes were...