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Such stipulations put great railroad executives to tussling like small boys. The eastern railroad situation became a melee where each one of the big participants tried to do at least three things at once???grab as many prosperous small railroads as possible, shove his opponent away from good roads towards poor ones, avoid kicking the I. C. C. (i.e., the public's interests). The railroads soon recognized that such promiscuous buffeting was unprofitable. For one thing, the turmoil made their customers aware that not yet were all great corporations "good corporations," like Judge Gary's U. S. Steel Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Eastern R. R. Consolidation | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...Raquel Meller has been the inspiration for much befuddled biography. It is, however, generally agreed that she was born in Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago. Some say that her parents were performers. She was taught to sew?at which art she went nearly blind once???and to sing Vespers in a convent, from which she escaped with the help of the gardener's ladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Sorceress Meller | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...least it is easy to recognize. Lowell Sherman has it, and makes the most of it by his incomparable technique. He is at present putting over two mediocre plays at once??? Morphia and The Masked Woman? by sheer force of his individuality. Jeanne Eagels has it, although she rather strains for it in Eain, and Helen Menken's youthful fire is responsible for a good deal of the thrill in Seventh Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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