Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Tribune, potent newspaper, knowing that the best scheme to maintain prestige is to fight for principle, last week invented another for which it will (editorially) battle: Purchase of Western Railroads by Western Investors.* Thus, while President Ralph Budd of the Great Northern and Harry Byram of the reorganized Milwaukee (old name: St. Paul) stump the west concerning the merger of the northwestern railroads, the Tribune argued: "What this [west] section does require from its railroads and what it is not receiving in proper measure, is prompt response to public demands for service. Translated for the railroad stockholder that means...
...owns more railroad stock than any other U. S. citizen...
...What brothers are famous in this country as railroad...
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.; enrollment, 3,146) suspended all classes one afternoon last week so that the students might parade to the railroad station, return and present to President Frank Palmer Speare a muscular, thick-furred canine, one of the famed Husky-dog team that took diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925. It was a gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard...
...Earle Martin, whose transfer from the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press last summer had given rise to the notion that the Plain Dealer was to have a worthy competitor (TIME, June 14). Earle Martin, onetime crack editor of the Scripps-Howard syndicate, was now at large again. . . . Earle Martin bought railroad tickets to Florida, said he was going fishing...