Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Railroad executives, aware that Southern and Western roads would need most of the help the pool might afford, were inclined to feel that asking one company's stockholders to pay another company's bond interest was unfair, if not downright illegal.* They went to Atlantic City to discuss the matter further at the Association of Railway Executives meeting...
Instigator of the I. C. C. decision is Charles Delahunt Mahaffie, 47. Serving his first year on the Commission, he plotted the pool plan. When the McNamara brothers were accused of dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building in 1910, Commissioner Mahaffie was a struggling young lawyer with no clients. He caught the eye of Clarence Darrow, who has saved many a rascal's neck, was hired as Lawyer Darrow's assistant for $20 a day. Princeton made Struggler Mahaffie an instructor in jurisprudence. Woodrow Wilson made him solicitor to the Department of the Interior. Warren Gamaliel Harding made...
...addition to strengthening the lines involved, the pool will increase the prestige in shipping of the young men who have been the driving force in the I. M. M.-Roosevelt combination. Of these the central figure is Kermit Roosevelt, diffident, able son of the late great Theodore. To his success with a small jute-carrying line was added the vast wealth of that solemn yacht-lover, Vincent Astor, who describes himself as "head of the Astor family in the U. S." Roosevelt ambition plus Astor money plus the friendship of young John M. Franklin, resulted in control...
Prospects for the coming squash season are very good, according to Coach Harry Cowles, who will meet all candidates for the University team at 5 o'clock this afternoon at the Linden Street courts. Captain A. W. Patterson '32, Beekman Pool '32, intercollegiate champion, and D. M. Frame '32 will be among those to report...
...Adams House tunnel, connecting all units of the House, will give students access under cover to the dining hall and to the swimming pool in Westmorly Hall. The pool has been fitted with a new filter, and is in use daily...