Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eliott's record in the financial world must make him, as a leader of education, anathema to Mr. Sinclair. As the ex-president and chairman of the directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad, as director of the Western Telegraph Company and of the National Security Company and as "a member of the executive committee of numerous other public service corporations", Mr. Eliott has a series of titles which link him unquestionably with "big business". And it is to such corporate interests that Mr. Sinclair objects when they take our educational institutions under their wings...
...devoted to speakers goes mostly for railroad fare and hotel bills, since most of the speakers give their time free. Radiocasting will cut down some of the traveling expenses, but will add instead another cost? the use of telephone wires for carrying speeches to distant radiocasting stations. Every radio speech now costs several thousand dollars...
...entire cost of the campaign. The reason for this is that candidates travel on special trains so that they can stop by the wayside to make speeches and thus facilitate their business. Special trains are expensive. Cars are rented by the day and 100 full-fare railroad tickets are required also. James M. Cox spent $160,000 on his expensive stump-speaking...
...Dress was not one of her luxuries. She would walk aristocratically into a distinguished hotel wearing a rusty gown, pinned up the back, shabby, "at the elbows." She was an aristocrat, but chiefly in manner. She did not speculate with her wealth, but invested in railroads, in Standard Oil. She was of Quaker stock, which may explain her frugality, but she turned Episcopalian. She married Edward H. Green. She replied to Suffragists who requested her aid: "I do not approve of Suffrage. A woman's place is in her home, taking care of her husband and children. I took...
That perennial scapegoat, the weather, comes in for much abuse; the spring was cold and summer was late. But novel factors have also arisen to make the summer innkeeper unhappy. Chief among these is the "auto camp." Guests no longer arrive bag and baggage via the railroad station, meat for the innkeeping Caesars. Instead they enter resorts under their own power, and proceed to the inexpensive hospitality of the "auto camp." Food they obtain from neighboring farmers, who in consequence are first to defend the camping motor tourist. Moreover, no one wants to stay put anywhere for even a week...