Word: publicational
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Porter Plan. Eastern roads are looking forward to the fall announcement of a rail consolidation plan prepared by Claude R. Porter of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Details of this plan have not been made public, but almost any definite program would be preferable to the present uncertainty as to the I. C. C.'s position on almost every rail project...
...must be clearly understood that the Exchange is not listing property itself, but only the securities of the corporations handling the property. The investor will not buy the Chanin Building at so much a share but will buy stock in the Chanin company. If the investing public can be induced to think of real estate in terms of stocks and bonds and not in terms of brick and earth, there would seem to be no reason why the investing public will not learn to trade in real estate securities...
When such an educational process has been completed, and the public is as ready to become a profit-sharing real estate partner as it is to become a profit-sharing partner in General Motors, the realtor, now dealing in readily negotiable securities, will find his once frozen assets now thawed, liquid and disposable...
...flung recognition soon came to the Harrises. In 1926, the Enquirer-Sun received the Pulitzer Prize for journalism for "disinterested and meritorious public service," and Julian Harris was placed on the Pulitzer advisory award jury. And when, last year, the Enquirer-Sun celebrated its 100th anniversary, many a famed journalist sent praising messages to the Editors Harris...
Three things which the public mind associates vividly with the State of Nevada are divorces, silver ore, the Mackay family. Divorce and the Mackay name were once "linked" in public prints, in 1914 when Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Mackay took the notion to leave her telegraph tycoon husband, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and marry a surgeon named Blake whom she later divorced (TIME, Aug. 5). But that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings...