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Romantic reporters who discuss the Van Sweringen Rail Empire also discuss the Van Sweringens as Rail Emperors. On such a basis, however, able John J. Bernet should certainly be listed as at least No. 1 Field Marshal. For though the Van Sweringens may handle the stocks and bonds, it is Mr. Bernet who has most to do with making the engines go and the cars follow them. In 1916 he took the Nickel Plate, commonly known as "a streak of rust," and quickly made it a sound and paying railway. In 1927 he was transferred to the Erie...
Popularly obscure may be Union Carbide & Carbon, not at all is Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, last week elected Union Carbide & Carbon's Board Chairman. Following the death (TIME, April 8 et seq.} of Myron Timothy Herrick, who was Honorary Board Chairman, George O. Knapp, Board Chairman, added Honorary to his title and Mr. Billings, member of the Executive Committee, moved into the Chairmanship. Not carbon, however, but horses provide the basis for Mr. Billings' popular fame. For to trotting (as distinguished from running) horses, Mr. Billings brought not only a devotion to the 'breeding and racing of fine horses...
Last week's reverberations of the Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett obscenity trial (TIME, May...
Five times has the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania chosen a bishop coadjutor to assist and eventually succeed Pennsylvania's Bishop Thomas James Garland (TIME, May 20). Five times have the chosen refused to accept the position...
...weeks before he sat down to this luncheon, Publisher Hearst had sat the President down pretty hard on the subject of Prohibition, in his national broadside against the Hoover speech in Manhattan to the Associated Press, which Publisher Hearst called "a blank cartridge fired against a blank wall" (TIME, May...