Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Termed dilatory by President Coolidge (see p. 9), the Interstate Commerce Commission last week roused itself, took action, decided that the New York Central R. R. might legally acquire the Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and the Michigan Central railroads, and subsidiary lines of the two. Merger permission was conditional upon purchase by the New York Central of six short-line roads in the affected area...
...decision was welcomed by the New York Central. It marked the Commis sion's first favorable decision on a question concerning vital railroad consolidation. Both the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Big Four") and the Michigan Central have long been New York Central subsidiaries, New York Central owning more than 90% of their stocks. They have been operated as separate units, however, and the New York Central based its consolidation plea on the argument that "the necessity for protecting the earnings of each carrier" prevented complete unification and coordination of the system. A. H. Harris, chairman...
...post. He is President Glenn Frank of Wisconsin, one-time editor of the Century magazine and, with Alexander Meiklejohn, founder of Wisconsin's famed Experimental College. Of the others, President Max Mason of the University of Chicago resigned last May* and President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan resigned last week...
...science, keen, enthusiastic, President Little went into Maine like a lion and came out three years later still more leonine. Flaying Maine for being miserly towards education he left for Michigan to try "on a very large scale the educational policies which the state of Maine has not yet been willing to adopt" (TIME, July 13, 1925). Michigan, he thought, was willing. Last week he had to admit that it was unwilling...
...Michigan, President Little took several ideas. Michigan had a football team that was making money. President Little insisted that the surplus be turned over to building more athletic fields so that all men and women in the University could exercise. It was not those who went out for college teams who needed exercise, he thought; it was those of mediocre athletic prowess. There should be more games for more players, he said. Last year, the football team made a gross income of $773, 698.93, a net profit of $476,88.12. greatest in the University's history. All other sports showed...