Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Profits on eleven billion dollars swung closer to U. S. railroads and their owners last week when the U. S. Supreme Court decided in favor of the St. Louis and O'Fallon R. R. in its dispute with the Interstate Commerce Commission on the most fundamental issue in the...
The valuation issue with its corollary, confiscation, was clearly posed. The O'Fallon went into court to fight the I. C. C.'s order. The great railroads of the land clustered about the midget line in friendly fashion. St. Louis' lawyer Daniel N. Kirby represented the O...
The O'Fallon case was loosely called "the greatest law suit in history" because: rail rates are fixed by the I. C. C. to allow the carriers a profit. The amount of profit depends on valuation. For 15 years the I.C. C. has been tentatively valuing U. S. rail...
"Ever since the close of the War the American government has consistently taken this position. It has never accepted membership on the reparations commission. The comparatively small sums which it receives under the Dawes Plan are applied solely to the settlement of the claims judicially ascertained by the mixed claims...
And then began a night and day of struggle. Two more engines went out of commission. The ship reached the Rhone.