Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plan. The Transportation Act of 1920 which returned U. S. railroads from the Government to their owners ordered the Commission to prepare a nation-wide plan for consolidation. The carriers were then weak and shaky after Federal operation. It was argued that consolidation would link the strong with the weak, eliminate wasteful competition, put all roads on a profitable basis. Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard produced for the Commission a merger plan in 1921 which caused such dissension that it was quickly junked. Vainly the Commission wrestled with the Congressional order, made no apparent progress. Impatient at the delay...
...women by British police and troops in Nigeria, West Africa, was announced by Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies Dr. T. Drummond Shiels. The women, said Dr. Shiels, were Negresses. They had attacked some British officers. Troops rushing to the rescue of their superiors received the order "Hold your fire, men!" and did so until the Negresses approached, slapped their faces, laid hands upon their rifles with intent to snatch them, whereupon British chivalry cracked and the shooting down of women began...
...Opening of the Royal Academy's exhibition at London, with a collection of Italian art sent from Italy by order of Dictator Mussolini...
...Opening of the Royal Academy's exhibition at London with a collection of Italian art sent from Italy by order of Dictator Mussolini...
Awarded. To Henry Waters Taft, brother of Chief Justice William Howard Taft; the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun; at a dinner of the Japan Society (Manhattan) of which he had been President seven years...