Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon trains as other citizens do. I submit to any Senator who has been traveling in the past 25 years whether there is any change in the situation. Drunkenness used to be common upon the trains. A score of times I have been spoken to by conductors upon the railroad trains in the State of Ohio, before prohibition went into effect, begging me to do what I could then, as a member of the general assembly and subsequently as a private citizen, to exterminate this traffic because they were annoyed by the drunkenness upon their trains. You do not find...
Since M. Loucheur's bill is admittedly subject to extensive amendment, if indeed Premier Briand can railroad it through the Chamber at all, everyone turned for relief from the terrific squabble which is brewing over the measure to M. Marcel Cachin, fire-eating Communist Deputy, who created a loudly welcomed diversion by denouncing the nation which he feels to be responsible for most of France's financial ills...
...very true that these possibilities usually vanish. A year ago as now, the President addressed serious recommendations to Congress. Upon only one of these, taxation, did Congress act, and upon that confusedly. Neither farm marketing; nor railroad consolidation, nor the Muscle Shoals, nor reclamation, nor the World Court was honored with effective attention. Over farm marketing and the Music Shoals, Congress deigned to bicker for a while. But when it might have entertained the other propositions. It was busied with doling out souvenir cannon and war monuments to the towns back home...
...sale of railroad tickets is now being held at Leavitt and Pierce's for the convenience of members of the University who wish to make train reservations for the Christmas vacation. Tickets for points south and west of Boston may be obtained up to December...
This fund, which has been considered and advocated by the alumni since 1919, has only recently been organized into the Harvard Fund with Howard Elliott '81, Chairman of the Northern Pacific Railroad, as president. A. T. Perkins '87 of St. Louis, and Leverett Saltonstall '14 of Boston are Vice-Presidents, and J. R. Hamlen '04 of Cambridge is Chairman of the Executive Committee. Howard Corning '90 of Cambridge is Executive Secretary of the Council. Mr. Hamlen has opened an office in Lehman Hall and will be in charge of the active field work of the fund...