Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bankers- Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the National City Bank. Whether the road is due for a receivership this spring is unknown in financial circles. But the drastic decline in St. Paul stocks and junior bonds indicates Wall Street's opinion that all is not well with the great northwest carrier...
...fundamental trouble with the St. Paul is overcompetition from the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, the Canadian transcontinental lines and shipping lines through the Panama Canal. The northwest territory is overbuilt with railroads in proportion to its traffic needs; and St. Paul, as the latest comer, has fared worst in competition. President Harry E. Byram naturally is preserving as cheerful a countenance concerning the approaching bond maturity date as he can; and even yet the bonds may be extended or exchanged in some way so as to avoid a receivership. But, since the immediate crisis is financial, the real future...
...Preparations. The details of what the President of the U. S. did early on inauguration day are not accurately known. He rose betimes. He may or may not have taken his morning ride on the automatic hobby horse. At 7:30, he. emerged from the northwest gate of the White House grounds with secret service men. He walked past the reviewing stand, still waiting for its finishing touches. He reentered the grounds at the Executive Offices. At 8:00, the White House guests sat down to breakfast in the White House dining room. They were: Colonel Coolidge, the President...
...completed a statue of Lincoln (now in Newark, N. J.) of which the late Colonel Roosevelt passed the equivocal criticism: ''Why, this doesn't look like a monument at all." Always he has been active in public affairs: he helped the farmers of the Northwest when they cried for better prices, he investigated, at the request of President Wilson, inefficiencies in aircraft building during the War. Said he: "The man of position or wealth who remains passive in the public life going on about him is in the same class with the man who feigns sleep with...
Died. Federal District Judge John F McGee, 64; in Minneapolis, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Harassed by Prohibition problems, he said he feared for his mind. Known throughout the Northwest as the "bootleggers' terror," he, upon one occasion, sentenced 112 offenders in three hours, collected $33,700 from them in fines...