Word: copings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time. By a process of rotation Frank McManamy, whose I. C. C. service began 23 years ago as a clerk, was advanced to the head of the Commission to succeed Ernest Irving Lewis. Chairman McManamy will need all his knowledge-and experience as a practical railroad man to cope with the task assigned him, because last week the Commission adopted and published its long-delayed plan for consolidating U. S. railroads. Eight years in the making, the I. C. C. plan is likely to take at least as long to execute...
Sirs: . . . The crux of West Point's stand lies in ... that with its smaller enrolment it cannot cope with Annapolis unless it can disregard the three-year rule...
...than any fifty men, is responsible for this stock crash," wrote Senator Carter Glass of Virginia last week to the Philadelphia Record. He?Charles Edwin Mitchell, head of National City-Bank?made no reply. Hostility of Senator Glass was an old story; besides, Mr. Mitchell had serious troubles to cope with. The still ominous market; the cancelled Corn Exchange merger; the rumored differences with his directors?Mr. Mitchell's position was carrying hazards with its honors...
...Crimson Players fought all through the game, but were unable to cope with the running and passing attack of the invaders, who also out-kicked the Harvard team on every occasion. Harvard Wilson, Dartmouth left halfback, scored all three of the winners' touchdowns, and Rollins, quarterback, added the extra point in every instance...
...second time that Mr. Mitchell had arrived in Manhattan on the wings of panic. He took his first Manhattan job (with Trust Co. of America) just in time to cope with the Panic of 1907. He arrived home from Europe last week, just in time to utter bullish reassurances on the eve of the crash...