Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...employers were approaching exhaustion, Mr. Davis suggested peace and got it. In the recent ten and a half months' Passaic textile strike, his attempts at settlement were few and futile. But there is not a single major strike now going on in the U. S.-the coal, railroad, Manhattan garment and Passaic strikes have all been settled in various ways. Who can say whether a Secretary of Labor with his fingers in every strike would be as happy today as Mr. Davis...
...Negress and her baggage being turned over to an officer at the station. The train rolled away and the passengers drowsed again. Mrs. Brookings spent the night in the county jail and was fined $500 for violation of Florida's "Jim Crow" law, which forbids Negroes to use railroad accommodations set apart for whites. Now, as everyone knows, Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, shrewd lawyers, are friends of all races; in fact, in 1925, they defended the source of all races at the famed "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn. Mr. Darrow has saved the lives of two young...
...Sainte Marie, ice-breaking car ferry, tucked up her gear last week, flirted a rudder at the mush of ice coming down St. Mary's River from Lake Superior, and swaggered back to her winter's work of hauling railroad cars across the Strait of Mackinac. Under her Captain F. A. Bailey and with the aid of tugs she had broken up the river ice and thus released the worst traffic jam in Great Lakes' shipping history...
...exhibition at the Milch Galleries, in New York, of the paintings of one Thomas Monan, a man who sat down at 9 o'clock every morning for some forty years with a black cigar in his mouth, to paint pictures for the Sauta Fe railroad, and whose work is as full of life and energy today as it is empty of form or grace...
Mary W. Harriman, widow of Railroad-Financier Edward Henry Harriman (died 1909): "The gold medal which I give annually to the railroad with the best non-accident record again went to the Union Pacific last week. My husband, of whose $100,000,000 estate I am sole heir and manager, built up the Union Pacific system. My sons are both directors. The Union Pacific, which received the medal in 1925 for its 1924 record, obtained the present award because last year its locomotives traveled the equivalent of 53,000,000 miles and carried the equivalent...