Word: central
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dissatisfied with any branch of the National Administration, should first advance their views in a friendly spirit in the expectation that it will be accepted. Failing this they may try the proper recourse through party headquarters. When such measure again fails, pressure may be brought to bear upon the Central Executive Committee of the party to reorganize the whole Government. But on no occasion shall party members attempt directly to interfere with the administration of the Government...
Sculptor Lukeman felt inclined to sue Mr. Venable. He said he had completed one third of the central group of three horses and riders for $180,000, that he could complete the rest within six months for $75,000. With the frantic ire of the artist whos work is criticized before it is finished, he called attention to the fact that most of General Lee was still in rough outline. Replying to Mr. Venable's threatening assertion that he had turned the rights over to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sculptor Lukeman continued: " The Daughters ... are now shoulder...
...steel districts to Lakes Erie and Ontario. It lay as an important joint for him to connect his Delaware & Hudson, the Wabash (which he controlled) and the Lehigh Valley (which he thought he controlled). It was a pretty railroad layout and promised to compete with the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio established systems, and with the Van Sweringen brothers' pattern of the fourth system...
Forces only partly known, like hidden electromagnets, were dragging against his fifth system. The New York Central wanted him out of their territory; it wanted the B. R. & P. as a cross-country, north-south connecting line. The B. & O. wanted the same B. R. & P. to reach the eastern Great Lakes. The Van Sweringens, close friends and complements of the N. Y. C., apparently stood by. Only the Pennsylvania sided with Mr. Loree's aspirations. Even so, financial and railroad men believe (such things are impossible to ascertain), Pennsylvania's President William Wallace Atterbury, while fanning Mr. Loree...
...political clubs then, but we did have torchlight parades. Both parties would be in both parades, such was the desire to be in or everything. On one occasion we had got down beyond Central Square when someone yelled out 'Freshies' from an upper window, with some justification. Potatoes were immediately put into action, and one first year man, whom I did not know, felt very much offended, for he was jumping around, waving his hands, and hurling violent epithets in the direction of the window. Well, that boy was Theodore Roosevelt...