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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...negotiations are well under way for a merger between the Southern Pacific and the El Paso and Southwestern. The acquisition of this road will give the Southern Pacific a new outlet into Mexico. It will also connect the Southern Pacific directly with Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. Following the El Paso merger, the next step naturally will be a merger with the Rock Island. That would give the Southern Pacific a direct line into Chicago, what it has always desired...
...Another reason why the Southern Pacific wants to go through with this merger [with the El Paso and Southwestern] is because it is now competing with railroads that have a through line to the Great Lakes and Middle-Western cities to the Pacific Coast. We, too, want to be able to say that our lines extend to Chicago from San Francisco, and this merger and a possible merger with the Rock Island system will make it possible for us to say that...
...Southern Pacific; Chicago Rock Island and Pacific; El Paso and Southwestern ; San Antonio and Oransas Pass and other small roads...
...crowd that had assembled to bid au revoir to the Premier was infuriated by the dastardly attempt upon his life. The would-be killer was seized and severely man-handled before the police were able to effect his rescue. In custody, the young student gave his name as Abd el Khadir, aged 20; said he had lately come from Germany to Egypt; that he tried to kill the Premier in order to prevent Anglo-Egyptian negotiations*over the Sudan and because the Premier had described the British Parliament as just and honorable...
...Cummins, ex-British Chargé des Archives, arrived in El Paso, Texas, from Mexico after having been forced to leave that country by President Alvaro Obregon (TIME, June 23, et seq.). Commenting upon the treatment meted out by the Mexicans, Mr. Cummins said...