Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor Doubleday's first announcement was to say that World's Work would revert to First Editor Page's principles. He promised that its oldtime "March of Events" section would again take its place in the front pages. Admitting that the magazine had "fallen by the wayside," Editor Doubleday promised renewed vigor, interest, progressiveness under his leadership. Also he told of two biographies soon forth-coming-one of the late great Myron T. Herrick, one of Banker-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. When a new caddy joins the caddy-shed gang at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island...
...Mills Campus. The Stradivarius Quartet, successor to the Flonzaleys (TIME, March 11), has begun a series of 28 concerts on the campus of Mills College (Oakland, Calif.), are also teaching at the Mills College Summer School of Music...
...purchased Canton, Baltimore's bustling freight and industrial suburb, by a similarly unnamed principal which later proved to be the Pennsylvania (TIME, June 24). Furthermore, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton was one of the roads included in the Baltimore & Ohio's plan for a greater and longer B. & O. (TIME, March 4). Just as the Canton purchase was virtually a slice carved out of B. & O.'s own backyard, so the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton seemed to be another Penn scoop...
...plan which aimed at creating a 7,044-mile system with the 2,400-mile Wabash as a nucleus. Major links in the proposed Wabash chain were the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Western Maryland, Lehigh Valley. The Wabash plan clashes with the Baltimore & Ohio plan (TIME, March 4) at almost every conceivable point. In the first place, the Wabash itself was the most vital unit in the proposed greater and longer B. & O. From a B. & O. standpoint, the Wabash ambition for its own system is much as if one of the pawns on a chessboard should crown...
When, last March, Elisha Walker's Blair & Co. merged with Amadeo Peter Giannini's Bank of America, N. A. (TIME, April 1), the union was generally interpreted as a combination of Giannini resources with Blair & Co. personnel. When, last month (TIME, June 3), Banker Giannini announced that his 60th birthday (1870-1930) would mark his retirement, evident became Elisha Walker's position as Heir Apparent. Thus last week's amalgamation of Bank of America, N. A., with Chatham and Phenix National Bank and Trust Co. might well have been regarded as First Result of Blair...