Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty years after he was born in the Tyrolean Alps in Ruttka, Austria (now Czechoslovakia), John Daniel Hertz retired from business. He had enjoyed the fight to get rich; but, now, why bother about it any longer? He has a pleasure-loving wife who, in turn, has a stable full of fine horses, including Reigh Count, winner of the Kentucky Derby, now in England getting primed for more victories. Wherever Mr. Hertz goes in the U. S. he can ride in the taxicabs which he has made numerous, famous, inexpensive. He is going to Florida, to Europe...
...unlikely that John Daniel Hertz remembers going to Chicago at the age of five; long journeys, to children, are merely a blur. But certainly he has a distinct impression of the beating his father gave him, which amused him to run away from home at eleven. He solo his school books for $2, took up residence at the Waifs' Home, got a job as copy boy for the Morning News. Evenings, he hawked papers on Chicago street corners. His father made him come home and go tc school. Six months of that, and he ran away again. Back...
...Daniel Willard for the Baltimore & Ohio and the Van Sweringens for the Chesapeake & Ohio last week made another feint towards accomplishing consolidations of eastern railroads. In 1920 Congress authorized the railroads to consolidate into trunk systems. But there was no acceptable plan. So the railroads have bought to form system themselves. Between the Mississippi, Great Lakes and Atlantic Seaboard, the Pennsylvania, New York Central and B. & O. were solidly braced to take on smaller lines. The Van Sweringens entered the situation by buying control of the Nickel Plate, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley and offering a plan...
...unsolved problem in Congress for over a hundred years. Up to 1921, no scientific tests of a good apportionment were known; a variety of empirical methods were tried and later discarded, and the decennial debates in the House were often bitter. On one occasion, after a long speech by Daniel Webster, the Senate reversed the action of the House on purely mathematical grounds. If the House is to be kept at its present size of 435 members, any gain for one state will necessarily mean a loss for some other state, so that the need for a sound and fair...
Following this so excellent example, the modern world is putting its best foot forward in an attempt to emulate Biblical heroes. Weird psychie phenomena such as Sir Oliver Lodge has been known to demonstrate are often considered on a par with Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream or with the handwriting on the wall. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Moreover, by directing with much success and grandeur the crossing of the Red Sea, Cecil De Mille claims recognition as having out-manoeuvered Moses...