Word: pere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the President sent to the Senate the name of Thomas F. Woodlock. "He lives in New York," cried Senators from the South. The President could not deny it. "He is a financier, a director of the Pere Marquette Railroad and the St. Louis-San Francisco. He writes for The Wall Street Journal, and even edited it once," cried Western Radicals. The President did not deny this. He even let it be known that Mr. Woodlock owed his appointment to his experience as a financier. The biggest problem now before...
...Foches had long been in the wool trade. The grandfather, Dominique Foch (1733-1804), in addition to increasing his fortune from wool, had busied himself giving practical expression to his enthusiasm for Napoleon, after whom he christened his son (Marshal Foch's father) Bertrand Jules Napoleon. Foch pere did not continue in the wool business but, as the French say, entra dans I'Administration; in other words, he became a civil servant. In 1850, having married Marie Sophie Jacqueline Dupre, he was appointed by President Louis Napoleon Secretaire General de la Prefecture at Tarbes. Next year...
...Howell was on hand with another proposal: that a committee of Congress be authorized to investigate the proposed merger by the Van Sweringens of the Nickel Plate, Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley Railways, as well as the control of the Gulf Coast lines acquired by the Missouri Pacific...
Just recently, these two boyish looking bachelors emerged with another plan. They had acquired a majority control in the stock of the Chesapeake & Ohio, Hocking Valley, Erie and Pere Marquette, which they proposed to merge with the Nickel Plate. One by one, the various boards of directors have given their consent and the only major obstacle now to be overcome is the Interstate Commerce Commission, which must also consent...
...problem essentially involves merging the older Eastern lines, par- ticularly between Chicago and the North Atlantic seaboard, into a few systems. Last spring, the Van Sweringens took time by the forelock, and by adding to their original Nickel Plate holdings the Hocking Valley, Erie, C. & O. and Pere Marquette, created the new Nickel Plate system (TIME, July...