Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Associate Justice Butler, the railroad lawyer from Minnesota, strong-chinned, almost truculent in concentration...
...Southern Pacific is neither a hospital nor a college. It is easy to understand why the gift was made. Though Mr. Harkness is a director of eight railroads, he has long had a penchant for the Southern Pacific. Of each and every year he spends a part inspecting the road. Many of the employes he knows by face and name. He once remarked that his three dominant interests were "the great West," "railroad companies," and "helping to better medical education." There could be no more logical focus for these three interests than the Southern Pacific hospital. The causes...
Prime indication of railroad recovery has been constantly increasing earnings. Another was the recent addition to 20-hour train service between New York and Chicago (TIME, Sept. 23) by the Pennsylvania and the New York Central. Last week there were many announcements that pointed toward railroad prosperity, although famed Stockmarket Bull Arthur W. Cutter was alleged to have indicated that railroad stocks were...
...first place, Mr. Loree or any other reputable railroader is entirely in order when he devises a plan for railroad consolidation. Nothing in the fast-moving U. S. has so dawdled and daggled as rail road consolidation -except possibly Prohibition enforcement. The I. C. C. has moved with the sloth of an iceberg. It now promises to come out soon with the basis of a plan. For years the public has been bored with dozens of plans mostly quite unoriginal...
Married. John Coolidge, 23, of New Haven, Conn., New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. clerk, Major in the .Connecticut National Guard, son of onetime (1923-29) President & Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; to Florence Trumbull, 24, of Plainville, Conn., daughter of Governor & Mrs. John H. Trumbull of Connecticut; at Plainville...