Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the infield practice H. L. deRahm '27 who caught in the second Yale game last year, took his place behind the plate. According to present indications the regular catcher's position seems to lie between him and Henry Chauncey '28, last year's Freshman backstop...
...members of the Interstate Commerce Commission (in Washington) felt that they could do what they would do with a clean conscience. They gave to the press and to the world their decision (agreed to by a 6 to 1 vote, several members not voting) on the proposed Nickel Plate merger...
...decision was the product of many months and some half a million dollars' worth of hearings, not to mention several weeks deliberation on the part of the Commission. The proposal was for a merger of the Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co.) with the Pere Marquette, Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, and Hocking Valley railroads into a great system with some 9,500 miles of track, connecting New York City and Newport News on the Atlantic coast with Chicago and St. Louis in the interior. It would be a fourth great Eastern railway system rivaling the New York Central...
...directors of two of the roads (the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Hocking Valley) are in majority also directors of the Nickel Plate, and voted these two systems into the merger without proper consideration for the rights of their minority stockholders...
Porcelain. A Chinese vase in green, yellow, and aubergine (1665) to Frank Partridge of London for $3,100, the highest price paid for anything in the porcelain collection. B. N. Needham, Manhattan collector, paid $2,000 for a Chamberlain Worcester dessert service of 45 pieces. Each plate is painted with a scene from one of Shakespeare's plays, and has on its back (in case any inquisitive guest should turn it over) an appropriate quotation from the bard...