Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When U. S. railroads load more than 1,000,000 cars of freight in one week, as the American Railway Association reported last week for the fourth time this year, that means that commodities are moving, that business is good. The continuing bituminous (soft) coal strike and the Mississippi river basin flood have prevented more than four 1,000,000-car weeks this year...
Third Party Talk. Into Baltimore last week rolled the private car of Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. From it stepped Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, Pierre S. duPont, and a committee of 14 Baltimorans. The party proceeded to a banquet given by the. Southern Maryland Society (composed of Maryland Republicans and Democrats), where, having eaten, Dr. Butler spoke...
...wrote in his column for the New York World: "For ages I had been curious to know what would happen if the nose of a great editor were shattered. I find that it bleeds. ... I do not like to come scot-free when friends of mine in the same car are injured. Besides, a great many duties devolve upon the member of the party who is not lacerated. I hailed the passing limousines with hoarse cries of 'Hospital!' and I must say there is no great congestion of Samaritans in Central Avenue...
Illicit Farewell. News organs in Mexico City were incensed last week at the act of an overscrupulous policeman who forcibly separated one Señor G. D. de Orihuela from his wife, as they were vigorously embracing in a public place. "We were waiting for a street car," said Señora de Orihuela. "My husband was about to leave me for some time...