Word: railroaded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cannot fool ourselves into believing that the money does not come from our pockets; liberality takes on another aspect when it means increased taxation. Much of the present unrest is due to the mistaken attitude of large groups towards the government. War time salaries, lavish expenditures for material, and railroad concessions have caused these people to look upon Congress as one vast mint anxious to rid itself of money. Surely additional gifts will cause the strengthening of this alarming belief...
...Board is Judge Robert Grant of Boston. Among the thirty members of the Board who are expected at the meeting are Major General Leonard Wood; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; Howard Eliot, former President of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and now President of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Arthur Woods, assistant to the Secretary of War, and formerly police commissioner of New York City; Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Owen Wister, the novelist; W. Cameron Forbes, ex-Governor of the Philippines; Joseph Lee of Boston, President...
Francis Lee Higginson '00 of the rowing committee arrived at Red Top today. Although no decision concerning the proposed change in the course has yet been made by the officials of the railroad and the rowing committee, it is expected that the question will be decided in plenty of time before the races on Friday...
Round trip tickets at $8.20 each, good on the special train only, may be purchased at the South Station, Back Bay Station, and at the offices of the United States Railroad Administration, 67 Franklin Street. Tickets for the observation train are on sale at the H. A. A. for $4.86 each...
...races next Friday will probably either be shortened by 150 feet at the end or the start will be pushed forward the same distance. This is caused by the fact that the finish of the course as it stands at present would be a little below the railroad bridge on which the observation train is to run. The New York, New haven, and Hartford officials fear that, unless the course is changed, an accident might occur owing to the tendency of the onlookers in the train to lean too far out over the observation platform railing. At a conference held...