Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee composed of F.V. Field '27 and Thomas Greene of the University of Georgia was appointed to investigate the possibilities of obtaining reduced railroad rates for students. If the railroad companies can be induced to cut down on fares for students the work of national student union will be greatly facilitated...
...Wiggin is a financial giant; his counsel is eagerly sought. He is director and officer in about 30 financial, railroad and industrial organizations, member of a score of clubs, trustee of many philanthropic activities. All through he has kept his reputation of being "tremendously loyal. . . . generous to a fault ... of unlimited courage," of being a hard worker and player, "big, jovial, wholesome." Called by his first name more than any other Wall Street potentate, he is occasionally spoken of as "the man of a million friends...
...trip will take two days, and will include a journey in snowmobiles from the railroad station to the destination. All the equipment used by mountain climbers will be taken along, such as ice axes, ropes and crimpons...
Firmer. Next day Herr Luther abandoned all attempt to conciliate the Right?played to the Socialists of the Left, who helped him to railroad through the Locarno Pacts. He declared positively that the Cabinet would hasten the entrance of Germany into the League, and announced his intention of calling for a vote of confidence on the morrow: "The Government will not attempt to carry on by backstairs tactics or shillyshallying." The session closed amid a Luther motion from the Centre...
...future, as it does not now, for the finest of university graduates, it is important to see the problem and the remedy. The rewards of education, of course, cannot all be reduced to statistics. A professor of English literature will never be paid like the president of a railroad, and no embryo professors ever expect to be. But as long as they can hope to strike no higher average than $3111 after spending $8500 and 20 years in preparation, the great majority of the best of them will continue to turn regretfully to railroads and banks and law offices...