Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...central fact militating against Candidate Hoover is that many people cannot understand what he stands for. He is no forthright protagonist of an ideal or program. He puts forth no clear-cut political or social theory except a quiet "individualism," which leaves most individuals groping. Material wellbeing, comfort, order, efficiency in government and economy-these he stands for, but they are conditions, not ends. A technologist, he does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell...
...fifth, if at all, would be organized and run by Leonor Fresnel Loree, who now controls the Delaware & Hudson. Mr. Loree, grizzly-bear of railroads, Harriman's successor in talent, conferred for nearly three hours. His conferees represented four trunk-line adversaries: the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Van Sweringen merger group (once planned to be based on the Nickel Plate, now planned to be based on the Chesapeake & Ohio...
...Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh will be divided between the Baltimore & Ohio and the New York Central...
...passed. Ideals are higher now. . . . This condition has come about largely by reason of the influence of young people. This generation is the best we ever have had. One young man, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, raised the tone of journalism 25% by his flights to Europe, and Mexico and Central America. And that is the effort of only one clean-minded American...
...list of Chairman Storey's committeemen is formidable: Brigadier General William Wallace Atterbury for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Patrick Edward Crowley for the New York Central; Charles Donnelly for the Northern Pacific; Laurence Aloysius Downs for the Illinois Central; Carl Raymond Gray for the Union Pacific; Edward Jones Pearson for the New York, New Haven & Hartford; Bird M. Robinson for the American Short Lines Association...