Word: granger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first attempts to regulate railroad rates were made by the so-called "granger legislation" in the Western States. This term is not very accurate, but it arose from the fact that it was the farmer element that used its influence to bring it about. The lowest rates were taken as a basis for the whole scale of transportation. The example which Illinois set in this matter was followed by other states as Wisconsin in 1884. The result was very disastrous, and foreign capital was no longer willing to invest in the railroads of those sections...
...arising in connection with them. The course also treats of the railway systems of Europe including a careful survey of the German railway union, which embraces most of the German roads and some in Austria and Holland. Among the business and social questions are rates, competition, railroad legislation, strikes, granger movements and railroad commissions. The course is conducted mainly by lectures; but there are free discussions on all knotty problems or difficult questions, and in addition original thesis work is encouraged by the instructor. The purpose of the course is to give the American citizen a correct knowledge...
...Lawrence Cricket Club has elected the following officers for the coming year: President, Charles T. Mann; vice president, Harry Wild; secretary, Squire Manchester; treasurer, William Marshal; committee, A. Barrington, A. Grant, A. Granger, W. Hendry, J. Roberts; finance committee, W. Hendry, F. Smythe...
Accompanying a cut of a very astonishing figure of Father Time with his scythe and an animated clothes-dummy, the Athen&aeum appends this motto - "Western Granger to Snodkins of Harvard: 'So you be a collidge man. Wal, collidge was the makin...
...Judge Granger decided yesterday in the Malley trial that the testimony of Blanche Douglass is not admissable. This virtually releases the defendants...