Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great railroad men of four decades ago were generally referred to as "Empire Builders," an earth-shouldering epithet originally applied to James J. Hill. Since the death of Mr. Hill, and of less admirable Jay Gould and their stern peers, the epithet had lapsed into disuse, but last week it was revived for a contemporary capitalist, Arthur Curtiss James. It became known that during the last two years Mr. James has accumulated a large stock interest in the Western Pacific Railroad Corp., becoming thereby probably the largest private railroad shareholder in the U. S.- a mighty factor in nearly...
...Jesuit education in Philadelphia. He was a Washington correspondent and there learned the ins and outs of politics, which stood him in good stead when, in 1919, he started an advertising company in Manhattan with no accounts at all. His first act was to undertake, for the Association of Railroad Executives, an "educational campaign" to lead the public back to the idea that private owners and not the Government were best fitted to operate the country's railways. The public was an apt pupil. The New York Central Railway was so pleased to get its business back into...
...educational system is the target for reformers of all kinds. We try desperately with tests, informational and psychological, to reduce the human element, much after the manner of railroad transportation. One result is that we tend to emphasize the knowledge that can be tested conveniently. It is far easier to see if the child knows the words and dates of so many authors, than it is to find out whether he has absorbed the bases of a real literary appreciation and taste. This is true to a greater extent even in music, as Dr. Davison shows in this book...
...preface to the book would indicate that it is little more than the circular of some railroad company advertising the glories of Glacier National Park; but, since few people read prefaces, it will not prevent their going farther and seeing that "Old, Old, Old Andrew Jackson" and "A Curse for the Saxaphone" will mysteriously appeal to their aesthetic tastes as well as amuse and stir them. On the surface, there are few signs that there is any aesthetic content there. The best things in this book are as shapeless as the mountains that obsess their author. There is either...
...arouse the farmers against the railroad law, he scores against Mr. Cummins whose name is attached to it. So far as he scores against the Administration, he injures Mr. Cummins who is reckoned its supporter...