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...tawdry section of the city and an easy one to miss. It's stuck in a little corner between the Boston & Maine Railroad's potato shed and the Hoosac piers. The Hon. Frank E. Mullen Express-way, a big green steel structure, zooms over part of the neighborhood, the Everett-Forest Hills Elevated zooms over another part. Every two or three minutes an MBTA train passes overhead and the whole neighborhood rattles and shakes. In the middle of the neighborhood is a dirty, unkempt, little, asphalt-paved park dedicated to the memory of a Congregational minister who settled there...
Tidy & Tiny. The short lines bear such quaint names as the Arcade & Attica, the Belfast & Moosehead Lake, the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington and the Tweetsie. Most of them are operated by small businessmen for whom railroading is still a shirtsleeve job and the romance of the rails a pleasant bonus. But apart from a handful, like North Carolina's Tweetsie, and the Reader Railroad in southwest Arkansas, which have made their puffing steam locomotives colorful and profitable tourist attractions, romance is not what the short lines are run for. Says an Interstate Commerce Commission official: "There's money...
...Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 passed into U. S. history one January afternoon in 1936, when Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts began reading the majority Supreme Court decision in U. S. v. Butler et al., receivers of Hoosac Mills Corp. The AAA of 1938 has yet to reach the Supreme Court. But last week two of the men most prominently identified with it set out to argue its case before the tribunal of public opinion. One demanded an outright conviction for failure, the other appealed for a suspended sentence...
Edward C. Moore, St. Augustine, Florida--Hoosac School, Hoosick New York...
Died. William Morgan Butler, 76, one-time (1924-26) Senator from Massachusetts, manager of Calvin Coolidge's 1924 Presidential campaign; of heart disease in Boston. A co-receiver of Hoosac Mills Corp., he brought the suit which led the Supreme Court to declare the AAA's processing tax unconstitutional...