Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...F. T. HUNTINGTON...
Presidents F. E. Herriman, of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corpn., Rembrandt Peale, of the Peale, Peacock & Kerr, and J. W. Searles, of the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co., all testified that they had considered the Jacksonville agreement, bitter bone of the whole contention, to be morally as well as legally binding. President Horace F. Baker, of the Pittsburgh Terminal Co., has already testified the same (despite contradiction by his competitor, President Morrow), having established that his company kept the agreement, was not again called to the stand...
...John F. Hylan, famed for what he did not accomplish as Mayor of New York City (1918-25) and for a remark his wife did not utter to Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians,* last week earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
...largest banking institutions. Last week they announced their intention of merging, to form a bank with resources of $350,000,000. "The consolidation will add largely to the financial prestige of the City and State," explained Chairman of the Executive Committee Joseph Wayne Jr. and President Edward F. Shanbacker...
Last week President William Benson Storey of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Co., Chairman of the Committee on Uniform Express Contracts of American Railway Executives, announced flatly: "We are going to consider within the next week at a meeting in New York whether to go further with the plan or not." The "plan" is for the railroads to assume the $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 annual business of the American Railway Express Company. Later, President Storey declared, rather to the surprise of railroad executives generally, that he had the approval of railroads carrying...