Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Porter Plan. Eastern roads are looking forward to the fall announcement of a rail consolidation plan prepared by Claude R. Porter of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Details of this plan have not been made public, but almost any definite program would be preferable to the present uncertainty as to the...
1) I. P. & P. agreed to lend $2.500,000 for the newspaper purchases. After the Commission's investigations, I. P. & P. withheld the money.
He headed for the U. S. in 1926, in a steamer cabin next to the suite occupied by Queen Marie of Rumania, whom he had begun to paint in Paris. He finished her commission after landing and proceeded, with introductions from Sir Joseph Duveen, to accommodate alert Manhattanites. In Philadelphia...
Painter Chandor's grandfather was Count Laszlo Chandor of Hungary, kin by marriage of the great Prince Metternich. His mother was an Irishwoman. Raised in England and at heart an Englishman, he, like many another young gentleman, considered it more sporting to go into the War as a "Tommy" in...
Chairman of a New York state commission to develop Saratoga Springs as a moderate-priced health resort is Bernard Mannes Baruch, Manhattan financier-philanthropist. His father, Dr. Simon B. Baruch of Camden, S. C., was one of the first to recognize Saratoga water's medicinal value. Last week Commissioner Baruch and a committee of U. S. physicians began a study tour of the spas of Germany, beginning at Bad Kissingen, Bavaria...