Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they gave a transcontinental trip because he had never been out of California. He boarded an eastbound train and found that his own money was "no good" even to porters, dining car stewards, boot-blacks. They were all primed in advance. He traveled to Manhattan as the "guest" of railroad presidents, hotel owners, Mayor James John Walker and everyone he met. Friends scheduled every hour of his time, to luncheons, matinees, dinners, surprise soirees. In Washington he was received and cared for by his good friend and Palo Alto neighbor, Herbert Clark Hoover. President Hoover and other members...
Journalistic Homers have sung for years the deeds of the Eastern trunk lines in their unceasing consolidation battles. Last week they smote a new chord on their lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these...
Achilles in this canto of the railroad epic is played by Arthur Curtiss James of the Western Pacific. Bearded, eye-glassed, urbane, he is known for different things to different people. To Manhattan socialites he is the host of a huge granite mansion on Park Avenue at 69th Street. To yachtsmen, he is the able and enthusiastic skipper of the famed square-rigged yacht, Aloha. To many a rich old lady he is vice president of Phelps-Dodge Co. To flower fanciers he is known for the unique arrangement of his Park Avenue mansion: the bedrooms open on a central...
Costa Rica. Limón is the chief Costa Rican port on the Caribbean. And Port Limón is the creation of U. F. C. The docks are owned by U. F. C.; the railroad from the port to the capital (San Jose) is operated by U. F. C.; of the townspeople of Port Limón, 95% are employes of U. F. C. And only U. F. C. ships touch at Port Limón. Hence last week, when U. F. C. threatened to suspend trade with Costa Rica, Port Limón had reason to feel that life itself was being threatened...
Scheme No. 2 involved William T. Kemper, for some years Federal Receiver of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad, purchased last year by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé. Charges against Receiver Kemper were that in 1924 when stockholders thought the situation hopeless, he learned of oil discoveries along the line, of improved operating conditions, of terms in the Santa Fé deal that would make Orient gold convertible notes worth more than face value. Then, according to charges, he bought more than $1,000,000 of these notes at from 10¢ to 25¢ on a dollar, within a few months sold them...