Word: howe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bickering to put through the cut. Last week the industry got a taste of what might happen in the meantime. Rutland Railroad Co. (407 miles of track mostly in Vermont), which has lost $2,000,000 since 1931, went into receivership two months ago and Federal Judge Harland B. Howe granted an injunction preventing creditors from hindering the road's operations. Recently the Rutland has been losing $2,400 a day. This month the court directed that the receiver temporarily reduce wages 15%. After the employes rejected this plan Judge Howe last week handed down a new decision...
...court cannot reduce salaries or wages-the railroad is too poverty-stricken to engage in a strike or a quarrel of any kind or wait for the Labor Board to decide what the wages shall be ... the decision must be theirs [the employes']. . . ." Simultaneously Judge Howe reversed his earlier stand, allowed creditors to sue. The ink was scarcely dry on his ruling when three banks (Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co., United States Trust Co. of New York, Old Colony Trust Co.) filed foreclosures on mortgages involving $9,250,000. This week Judge Howe is meeting with "all persons...
...excursion steamers as he sailed past on his yacht. The first really good lick destiny got in was his marriage to serious, social-minded Eleanor Roosevelt. Among the many excellent and sobering results of his marriage, avers Ludwig, was that it trained him for keeping peace in Congress. Louis Howe's misanthropic advice checked his "easygoing nature." With his heroic fight against infantile paralysis, the playboy streak was eradicated. So far as Biographer Ludwig can see, the only remaining flaw in Roosevelt is a streak of Dutch stubbornness, and even that, he thinks, may be "Nature's compensation...
HARVARD CORNELL Shean, 2b 2b, Johnson Johns, ss lf, Gannet Lupien, 1b ss, Polzer Grondahl, 3b p. Steunack Gannet, cf rf, Howe Soltz, lf 3b, Gally Hoye, rf lb, Lozier Bacon, c cf, Brown Ingalls, p c. White...
...eighth inning Grondahi tumbled Polzer's grounder, and the latter scored the final run when Howe tripled to deep right centre field. In trying to stretch his hit to a four-bagger. Howe was out on the throw home...