Word: esch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cummins had been the chairman of the Committee on Interstate Commerce since 1919. When, in 1923, his name again appeared on the list of proposed chairmen, Democrats and Progressives in the Senate roared that Cummins was the enemy of the farmer and the worker. He had sponsored the controversial Esch-Cummins law which provided for high railroad freight rates, a law that was oppressive to the small shipper. His opponents charged that Cummins was the ally of the gilded railroaders, and the farmer's foe. They maintained that Cummins' reappointment to the chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission would give...
...iron was French, the limestone Belgian, the coke came from Holland and Germany. Yet the stream of molten metal, tapped last week by Italian workmen in the Luxembourg town of Esch, was steel that belonged to Europe-solid and symbolic evidence that the Schuman Plan dream is at last reality. Six nations, producing 20% of the world's steel, would henceforth pool their outputs, eliminate tariffs, surrender control (but not ownership) of their basic industries to a supranational High Authority, headed by a dapper Frenchman who hopes to forge not merely an industrial colossus...
Toledo: R. A. Esch '27; 1810 Clinton St., Toledo, Ohio...