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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eden jor One, Harper's, 1927, $2; Red Pavilion, Harper's, 1926, $2) of the Chicago Daily News went to interview Market Operator Arthur W. Cutten. His mission was apropos of nothing but Mr. Cutten's position as famed Bull. He found Mr. Cutten easy to talk to, difficult to interview...
...moment I was alone I broke out into streams of perspiration," he wrote. "Then for the first time I realized that I had passed the most difficult hour of my life...
...then consisted of the four patriarchs who helped frame the Constitution of 1889?Marshal Prince Yamagata, Prince Saonji, Prince Matsukata, Marquis Okuma. No political move of any importance was made by the Emperor without consulting the Elder Statesmen. When their great age made traveling to the Palace difficult, Imperial messengers were sent to ask their advice. Prince Kimmochi Saonji, now 80 (he was born in the year of the California Gold Rush) is the last survivor. So great is his influence still that when etiquette seemed to demand that Prime Minister Tanaka and his whole Cabinet must resign with Privy...
...into steam at about 300 lbs. pressure. That mercury-vapor-heated steam operates, in the Emmet machine, a second turbine until its heat falls too low to do more work. Mechanically efficient as the Emmet apparatus is, not many similar plants exist. Mercury vapor is poisonous and it is difficult to prevent its escape...
...Wabash plan did not conflict with Pennsylvania, which has a 49% stock interest in the Wabash line. By further scrambling an already chaotic jumble of claims and counterclaims, it made more difficult any disturbance of the present situation?a situation with which Pennsylvania Railroad, potent and powerful, seems not ill pleased...