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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the many schemes to rehabilitate the St. Paul Railroad, not the least ingenious is that worked out by the receivers, Mark W. Potter and Edward J. Brundage, and known as the "Potter plan." This is almost literally a scheme for robbing Peter to pay Paul-the Peter in this case being other Western lines more prosperous than the St. Paul. The receivers argue that any increase in rates in the Western carriers should be pooled among them in such a way as to give the neediest roads the largest share of the increase. If, for example, the Great Northern...
...floor space of a small Manhattan apartment, a young Jew last week went about the business of packing a suitcase. Old newspapers-the inseparable, useless adjuncts of this operation-lay here and there in crumpled disorder, but two, each containing an item which had been circled with a pencil mark, reposed on a table. The first item related how Composer George Gershwin, famed jazzbo, had recently returned from Europe; the second stated that this Gershwin, when he had finished the piano concerto which Dr. Walter Damrosch has commissioned him to write for the New York Symphony Orchestra (TIME...
...Mark Hopkins Williams...
...made no mark in Parliament for ten years, but outside he had an excellent reputation as a capable lawyer. He was appointed permanent counsel for Oxford University and Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. In Asquith's short-lived coalition Government, he became Solicitor General, and, the year following, Premier George made him Home Secretary, in which capacity he remained for two years and distinguished himself in the House by his able speeches. The year 1919 saw him a Lord of Appeal and in the Bonar Law and Baldwin Governments he was Lord High Chancellor, a position...
...over the 1919 census. Berlin remains the second largest European city, with 3,900,000 inhabitants. Hamburg is the second largest German city, with just over a million. Köln (Cologne), München, Leipzig and Dresden have each over 600,000 and Breslau exceeds the 500,000 mark...