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This nugget of railroad wisdom appeared last week in a letter to the contented stockholders of Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. For their approval President William Johnson Harahan submitted a plan to make C. & O.'s finances even sounder, more adequate, than they are now. The plan hinges on the creation...
Cried orderly Nicholas Murray Butler: "The world of today . . . is not happy. It is not contented. It is not prosperous. . . . In Seattle some 650 working people, who are under contract to carry on their daily employment [at Publisher William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer] and who are anxious to...
Because the Alumni meeting was held indoors, most students contented themselves with listening on the radio, although Memorial Hall, Sever, and the University Theatre were packed with visitors.
Concludes Author Tunis bitterly: "We are a bunch of contented college cows. . . . That lamp of learning, tended by the ancient Greeks, blown white and high in the mediaeval universities and handed down to us in a direct line through Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge, has at last produced a group of...
Talk v. Action. Labor's crisis had been precipitated, though not caused by the action of John Lewis and his Committee in going over the heads of A. F. of L.'s Executive Council to begin an organization drive among the nation's historically unorganized steelworkers (TIME...