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...Commission last week for a 15% freight rate increase. The three other reasons are: Depression, motor trucks, pipelines. At their Manhattan meeting fortnight ago (TIME, June 22) the carrier executives named three of their colleagues to approach the I. C. C. Representing the Eastern roads was big, breezy John Jeremiah Pelley, who rose from Illinois school-teaching to head New York, New Haven & Hartford. Henry Alexander Scandrett, whose long legal service with the Union Pacific trained him for the presidency of the reorganized Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, represented the Western and Mountain-Pacific group of roads. Whitefoord R. Cole...
...back from the Treasury, either individually or through their corporations, tax refunds totalling $114,655,279. Though Senator Dill would have great difficulty in proving any connection between these funds and refunds, his charge was prime political ammunition. Large contributions and refunds listed among the 24: Jeremiah Milbank $25,000 and $891,443; the Brothers Van Sweringen $65,000 and $353,364; the Rockefellers, father and son $50,000 and $8,545,309; William Nelson Cromwell $25,000 and $222,652; Harvey Firestone $25.000 and $2,960,000; Charles Hayden $25,000 and $1,876,000; the late George Fisher...
...Holiness the Pope last week swelled the ranks of the Knights of Malta by the appointment of 14 Americans, some of them famed. The knighted: President Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Commercial Cable Co.; President John Jeremiah Pelley of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.; President Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central System; Lawyer Jack Johnson Spalding of Atlanta, Ga.; Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee Angus Daniel McDonald of Southern Pacific Co.; Banker Joseph Henry O'Neil of Boston; Banker Elisha Walker of Manhattan; Philanthropist Dennis Francis Kelly of Chicago; President Bernard Joseph Rothwell of Bay State Milling...
...Manhattan, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick preached: "Individualism in the modern world is insanity. Optimism is a dangerous lie. If our businessmen were only realists, if they ceased this silly optimism, then the disastrous consequences of our present Pollyanna attitude might be averted. . . . We need the voice and spirit of Jeremiah. . . . If the business brains of this country were devoted to social problems rather than the making of money, economic life could readily be rescued from its inhumanity. . . . Unless we adapt our capitalistic society to the needs of the present age and adapt it to social planning and control,* some form...
Julius Fleischmann; Edgar Allan Poe; Lawrence Mervil Tibbett ;Lammot du Pont ;Peter Bernard Kyne; James Jeremiah Wadsworth ;Alexander J. Cassatt; Malcom W. Greenough; Paul Hyde Bonner ;James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney ;William E. Boeing ;John N. Garfield ;Philip Richard Mather; Edward Aloysius Cudahy; Lester Armour; William H. Mitchell; Sturtevant Erdmann; Pierrepont D. Schreiber...