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...Armenian William Saroyan, published his first book of short stories this month. Despite Mr. Saroyan's too evident desire to avoid classification, however, he is easily catalogued as belonging to that school of writing dominated by Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Edith Sitwell, so aptly labeled by Max Eastman as "the cult of unintelligibility...
Because two-thirds of the country's rail mileage is being operated at a loss, Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman few months ago recommended a plan which, he claimed, would save the roads $100,000,000 annually. Key of the plan was that all rail merchandise services be pooled into two competing agencies of comparable traffic and financial strength, to be owned by two big groups of railroads. Mr. Eastman's plan left the railroads cold. Even less enthusiasm greeted suggestions for pooling of U. S. freight cars. To this the industry objected hotly with cries...
Railroaders held that greater economy could be obtained by rigid application of existing freight car rules. Mr. Eastman countered with a charge that their attitude was one of "ostrichlike obliviousness to conditions." Last week, following a visit to the White House by Mr. Eastman, President Roosevelt disclosed that, controversy or no controversy, one of the Administration's prime recommendations this winter would probably be the pooling of freight cars for use of all lines...
...best of pillars outlive their usefulness and have to be replaced. Mr. Willard, now 73, does not call as often as he once did at the White House. President Roosevelt does his railroad talking now with men like Carl Gray of Union Pacific and Federal Transportation Coordinator Eastman. Lawyer-Lobbyist Robert Virgil Fletcher of the Association of Railway Executives has so far failed to draw any aces from the New Deal for his employers. Therefore the carriers of the U. S. have long felt the need for a fulltime Washington spokesman, a man of power, prestige and personality who would...
That night 2,500 citizens of Rochester, which the late George Eastman helped make one of the most civilized communities in the land, gathered around Captain Schultz's ring for the evening performance. The horse & lion act ended. This time "Baby" outsmarted Captain Schultz. One snap and twist of the lion's jaws and the horse crumpled with a raw, red hole gaping in its throat...