Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though I am unable to point to an Alma Mater of my own, recent facts and figures demonstrate that the trained and logical thinker in the executive's chair is being drawn more and more from the ranks of college men. This is particularly true of bank and railroad presidents. There is no reason why it should not be equally true of elective or appointive political places. When candidates for and incumbents of such offices are not made the victims of shameless abuse and willful misrepresentation, we may find more college and university men entering public life...
...national legislator from Nebraska, a Republican, was seen making his way to Mr. Coolidge's office. (Several Federal posts in Nebraska are vacant.) But he did not wear the pince nez of Senator Howells, railroad investigator. Nor was he Senator Norris, trust buster and Muscle Shoals expert. He was simply a Congressman-the Rev. Melvin Or lando McLaughlin, onetime parson. Before the day was over, politicians near and far learned that the Rev. Mr. McLaughlin had discussed pa tronage with the President. Could this, they asked, possibly mean that Mr. Coolidge had decided to snub the Nebraska Senators? Already...
Last week's events went to prove that, in the highly competitive clash of Eastern railroad mergers...
...upspurt lately enjoyed by the railroad industry, some enthusiasts have been led to talk as if, until the past year or so, American railroads were barren investments. A financial scribe compiled, last week, a list of the American roads with long dividend records which throws an interesting light on the subject...
...Sweringens seem to have played their cards well. Directorates and stockholders of the constituent roads, and state railroad commissions (even that of Virginia) have been led to approve their plans. The only hostile faction to it consists of the minority C. & O. stockholders and perhaps the Pennsylvania...