Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board of Control, still remained clipped by hostile Filipinos. This Board is composed of the Governor General, the President of the Senate (Manuel Quezon), the Speaker of the House (Manuel Roxas). It controls and selects the directors of all government owned corporations: the Philippine National Bank, the Manila Railroad Co., the National Coal Co., etc. Governor General Wood, being the minority member of this Board, was unable to put his policies into effect; so last week, on the day of the adjournment of the legislature, he announced that henceforth all the duties and powers of the Board of Control were...
...from being an enemy of corporations, Justice Brandeis became invaluable to them because of his exhaustive knowledge of their needs. In many railroad cases, the Supreme Court defers to his judgment. Only three weeks ago, he handed down a decision forbidding the coercive use of the strike (TIME...
...Railroad Mergers. Northwest. Arthur Curtis James, probably the largest railroad stockholder in the country, predicted at St. Paul last week, that the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington would be consolidated into a Northwest system, with only the St. Paul giving competition. Chairman Howard Elliott of the Northern Pacific, at Manhattan, said the merger awaits only appropriate Congressional legislation...
Several thousand students left yesterday over the road and it is expected by the railroad officials that 15,000 more Harvard graduated and undergraduates will take part in the exodus today...
...loadings. This is becoming an all-time record year for the movement of fully loaded railroad cars. In the first 42 weeks of the year, 42,832,438 cars were loaded, more than during any previous like period. Twenty-one of these weeks were million-car weeks...