Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publishers sold the sheets to D. Appleton & Company, New York, who issued the book with a new title-page dated 1866. For a long time the edition published in London in 1866 was considered the first. A copy of this edition in the collection has, as frontispiece, an unusual plate hand-colored by Tenniel, the artist...
...Davis puddled along in Sharon, Pa., and in Birmingham, Ala.; then he went to work in the tin-plate mill of William B. Leeds and Daniel G. Reid at Elwood, Ind. Three things began to happen to him in this town of 1,500 souls: 1) He became wealthy: his pay at the tin mill was good; he saved money; he backed his good and enterprising friends in activities from oil speculation to running newspapers; later he became an investment banker in Pittsburgh. 2) He became a member of the Loyal Order of Moose. There have been loyal Moose before...
...nation had done what he has done he would have been court-martialed and shot. "... I am going to close now with this appropriate quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm, it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. "Shame on those who brought this Fall and Doheny case to a miserable close; shame on those who forgot their oaths of allegiance to their country; and shame...
President Frederick Douglass ("Fred") Underwood of the Erie sat in his Manhattan office last week. He had just resigned his job and those "mighty fine young men," Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and Mantis James Van Sweringen, had replaced him with President James J. Bernet of their Nickel Plate road. This was probably another move of the Van Sweringens towards their merger of the Nickel Plate, Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley roads into their Nickel Plate System, which the Interstate Commerce Commission thwarted last March (TIME, March 15). President Underwood has always been "good copy" for newspaper...
...Sweringens brought him to their Nickel Plate ten years ago. An operating genius, he reorganized, practically rebuilt, the road; made it as efficient a freight carrier as any other line of the country. He is a sales genius too. When the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland contemplated its present 21-story bank and office building, President Bernet got the business of hauling the construction material. That was a triumph. But it lasted briefly, for the late President Alfred Holland Smith of the New York Central heard of the matter. The New York Central had long done considerable business through...