Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroad question, will help rather than hurt the carriers, especially respecting further railroad consolidations. Curiously enough, as Mr. Livermore pointed out, this movement for greater consolidations was not only severely criticized by Congress, but was blocked by Congressional action two decades ago, when promoted by the late E. H. Harriman and others...
...admitted to the Texas bar at 22. In 1884 he first undertook railroad legal work. In 1892 he became general attorney and counsel for all the Southern Pacific lines in Texas. For many years subsequently he was the right-hand man of the late E. H. Harriman, as general counsel for the U. P. S. P., and other " Harriman roads." From Sept., 1909 to Sept., 1913, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee and President of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific systems. Since 1913 he has been connected officially with the former road only, as Chairman of the Executive...
There has been these last few months a barely discernible turn of the tide. Romeyne Park Benjamin, The Jitney Players (mostly college graduates), Oliver Harriman (Princeton) have cast their lots with the actors. Possibly none of them will succeed John Barrymore; yet their example in forcing the national stage door against the dead weight of convention is invaluable. Young men of less position but with more temperament may be aroused to follow their inclinations through the door thus opened...
Divorced. Elsie Ferguson, actress, from Thomas B. Clarke, Jr., Vice President of the Harriman National Bank, Manhattan, at Paris. She charged indifference, desertion, nonsupport...
...Borden Harriman (son of Oliver Harriman) joined the Wood Players at Providence, R. I., under the management of Leonard Wood...