Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elections to choose a President, a Vice-President, and a Secretary-Treasurer of the Freshman Class will be held today in Sever Hall from 9 until 1 o'clock and in each group of the Freshman Dining Halls from 12 until 1.30 o'clock. Voters will express their preference for one person in each group of candidates and must sign their ballots. The election is in charge of a committee headed by R. P. Post...
...ordinary night express from London pulled into smoky Newcastle, H. R. H. emerged from a common-first class sleeping car, accompanied only by Sir Godfrey Thomas, his private secretary. Together they tramped over to the Station Hotel, unwelcomed, unescorted, and there they took a room and sitting room, bathed, breakfasted. Just as the station clock neared nine, Edward of Wales drew on capacious rubbers, donned a grey checked overcoat, struggled into a great black ulster with an astrakhan collar, clapped a bowler (derby) on his head, and was off by limousine to inspect in three days slightly over 100 bleak...
Among new financings of last week was an offering of $32,000,000 in bonds of Railway Express Agency, Inc. Such famed houses as J. P. Morgan & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., First National Bank and National City Co. underwrote the issue. On March 1, subject to the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the new organization will take over virtually the entire expressing business of the U. S. The bond issue culminates two years of effort on the part of U. S. railroad executives, particularly of William Benson Storey, president of the Santa...
...When the ordinary U. S. citizen thinks of expressing a package or trunk, he may well be excused for thinking of Adams Express or American Express. Yet the arrival of a trunk at either the Adams offices (61 Broadway) or the American offices (65 Broadway) would probably be greeted with surprise rather than with interest. For both Adams and American are now holding companies. The actual operating express company is American Railway Express. It is American Railway Express whose functions the new Railway Express will take over on March...
...Progress of the express business, from a competition between express companies to a railroad-controlled monopoly sanctioned by the Government, began during the War. For just as the railroads were administered by the Government, so the physical properties of the express companies were sold to the then newly-formed American Railway Express Co., which was managed by a Federal administrator. In September, 1920, Government administration ended, and American Railway Express continued as an operating company whose stock was jointly held by Adams Express and American Express. American Railway Express then arranged contracts with almost every U. S. railroad (notable exception...