Word: cole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago smart, genial Whitefoord Russel Cole's Louisville & Nashville applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a reduction in coach fare from 3.6? per mi. to 2? A few Western roads (TIME, Oct. 23). Mobile & Ohio, struggling in receivership between two rivers and five competitors, and Atlanta & West Point R. R. followed suit. Meantime, the Southern was experimenting on branch lines with a 1½? coach fare. This line found that with base fares cut more than one-half, net earnings nevertheless increased appreciably. With these heartening precedents, more than 1,000 lines west of the Mississippi...
...breathless minute he, too. made a perfect circuit. No team could beat the Swedes. The Canadians, Czechs and Irish disqualified themselves from chances of a tie, even proud Gallowglass refusing a jump. It was up to the U. S. Lieut. E. F. Thomson on Tanbark, and Major John Tupper Cole on Avocat made their jumps perfectly. But Lieut. Carl W. Raguse's Ugly crashed a rail for four faults, gave the Swedes their clean-cut victory...
...Marshall Field III held the first Scavenger Hunt in London. Songwriter Cole Porter organized several in Paris. Last week energetic Elsa Maxwell, plump and practiced social impresario, introduced it to Manhattan as a new socialite sport. Occasion was a Hallowe'en charity party for the Maternity Center Association at the Waldorf-Astoria. From mid-evening until midnight 199 excited socialites scurried around the town trying to filch the assorted trophies demanded by Hunt Mistress Maxwell...
...GREAT OFFENSIVE-Maurice Hin-dus-Smith & Haas ($3). More about New Russia by the author of Humanity Uprooted and Red Bread. INSIDE THE ATOM-John Langdon-Davies-Harper ($2.50). By the author of The Future of Nakedness. WHAT EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT MONEY-edited by G. D. H. Cole -Knopj ($3). By a group of Oxford experts...
...gradualists to the core; they deplore the fate of Social Democracy in Germany and in Italy and consider the Fascists really quite unsportsmanlike. With the 1931 debacle just behind them they issue a declaration of faith in Democracy rather than Dictatorship, and look askance at G. D. H. Cole and his companions of the left wing who plumped for a frontal attack and a use of force if thwarted in legislative demands. If Sir Stafford Cripps can be considered typical of present, Labour party opinion, the only slogan to which it will have any right will be "On to Bigger...