Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sweringens, Oris Paxton and Mantis James. To the Interstate Commerce Commis sion came last week a somewhat peculiar request. Briefly, the petitioner - Nickel Plate R. R. - asked permission to acquire stock control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie road. Oddity of the request lay in the fact that last month the I. C. C. ordered the Nickel Plate to dispose of all its holdings in Wheeling & Lake Erie. This order has not been rescinded, but the Van Swer-ingens (Nickel Plate owners) blandly ask for all, having been told that they could have nothing.* No blind optimists, the Van Sweringens possibly...
...suddenly to three men-George V. Edward of Wales, the Duke of York-England would have another Virgin Queen Elizabeth. Last week, romping in a yellow frock, the Princess Elizabeth passed her third birthday. She does not know that she is but three removes from the Throne; in fact she has only very recently discovered that she is a "P'incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet, the P'incess." "Lilybet...
...Sixteenth National Foreign Trade Convention at Baltimore last week made any epochal advances in the solution of problems of foreign trade. Still many an Exporter met many an Importer; many sound, if not startling, pronouncements were made concerning international commerce; and everybody appeared to be agreed upon the fact that foreign trade was an exceedingly good thing and that there ought to be more...
...studied the question for the past few years and has been active as a newspaper correspondent at the State House at Boston for as long a period. In the most recent aspects of the situation Mr. O'Connor is well fitted to deal with the question due to the fact that he was consulted by those men proposing the pending resolution calling for an investigation...
...Federal Trade Commission's investigation, which was the outcome of the Walsh resolution, was the confined, in its opening phase, to the so-called public relations and educational activities of the public utilities, especially the National Electric Light Association. The investigation developed the fact that a systematic, nation-wide organization, termed by its critics a "propaganda machine", was operated by the light and power interests to influence public sentiment through the press and the schools and colleges...