Word: esch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brookhart has been stumping Iowa telling it just that, saying that Wall Street put him out of his seat, saying that Wall Street defeated the Haugen farm relief bill, saying that Wall Street put over the Esch-Cummins railway bill and the farmers are paying (through freight rates) the dividends on watered stock, saying that the farmers are enriching Wall Street because they have to buy under the protective tariff, saying Wall Street and the Administration are hand in glove, and mentioning incidentally that he voted against World Court adherence...
Amendment of the Esch-Cummins. Act so as to give the railroads from five to seven years to effect consolidations, after which consolidation would be compusory, is the policy advocated by Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce...
...Repeal of the Cummins-Esch law. Public ownership of railroads, with democratic operation with definite safeguards against bureaucratic control...
Railroads. The Esch-Cummins Act of 1920 promised cheaper freight rates, improved service, better labor conditions, peace between employer and employees, fair return to railways on their investments. Democrats favor these aims but contend the Act has not achieved them...
...Supreme Court for the third* time in recent months upheld the Transportation Act, generally known as the Esch-Cummins Railroad...