Word: ferryman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What President Roosevelt apparently wants is for the utilities to adopt the prudent investment basis voluntarily. Among the specific cases the President gave to point his moral was a ferryman on the Thames during Queen Elizabeth's reign. Under common law she could have valued the boat at $500, if that was its worth, and based his rates accordingly. If he had paid $1,000 for the boat, it was his own error and loss. Another Roosevelt example was a run-down electric plant in Georgia with a few miles of line, a few decrepit boilers worth...
...Received with high approval and respect a plea in behalf of Britons now in jail for debt from the 1st Baron Snell, an eminent Fabian Socialist whose parents were farm laborers and who relates in Who's Who that he has worked as a "groom, ferryman and potman...
...market square are established. Many blacks are attracted by Baptist Minister Jones's sensational revivals. More turn to the Catholic mission where Father Domenique cultivates his gentle philosophy and his rose garden. Sister Marte, annoyed with Sister Therese, runs away, makes good her escape by sending dour old Ferryman Lardi, asleep on his raft, to death in the rapids below, then takes refuge with the Joneses until Sister Mary Josephine fetches her back. Old Googli, the cannibal, fashions a pottery jar from the skull of lascivious Brother Francois who had made an insane attack on the sacred virgin...
...Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water on which "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, her illiterate grandfather-in-law, made his start as a ferryman and founded the family fortune...