Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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(2 of 2) lives in Detroit, its terminal city), is a bold act. Not since the financially riotous null and 1880's which brought the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission (1887) and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) has an important railroad dared be so intimate with the press...
Tempest. The face of John Barrymore is, no doubt, a handsome one. His bare shoulders also have a certain attraction. Observers of Tempest are not allowed to forget these facts, which occupy an inexcusably large amount of the film's footage. So, it is no wonder that the reputedly...
Representatives of the Federal Trade Commission were working in the offices of large public utility holding and service companies at Manhattan, Philadelphia and Chicago last week, seeking data on the growth of capital assets and capital liabilities of holding companies and management groups, their methods of issuing securities, their intercompany...
Again, Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 49 and Mantis James Van Sweringen, 47, Cleveland brothers, are frustrated in their plans for a fourth eastern railroad system. The Interstate Commerce Commission again last week rejected their revised plan for joining the Great Lakes to Atlantic ports.
Broken in spirit and body, Michel became at last "liberé" (fantastic name for those wretches who survive imprisonment, but, exiled for years to come, must report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare...